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A Libertarian Presidential Candidate Isn't Going To Win Anyway, So He Can Afford To Say That All Taxation Is Theft, And It Isn't The Job Of A Libertarian Presidential Candidate To Cook Up New Ways To Commit Theft.

We Must Oppose Programs That Would Take Food From The Mouths Of Younger Generations To Buy Prescription Drugs For Old People, And We Must Do It... For The Children.

Government Can Only Do Two Things: It Can Beat People Up And Kill Them. Or It Can Threaten To Do So. When It Seems To Be Doing Something Else - For Example, Handing Out Money Or, Say, Surplus Cheese - What's Actually Going On Is That Something Has Been Taken Away From One Set Of Individuals By Deadly Force Or The Threat Of Deadly Force, A Hefty Middleman's Fee Deducted, And Whatever Is Left Thrown To Peasants Delighted To Receive Stolen Goods.

My Current Novel, Pallas, Is All About That Culture War - In Fact It's Been Called The Uncle Tom's Cabin Of The Sagebrush Rebellion - And Yet What I Hear All Too Often From Libertarians Is That They Don't Read Fiction.

Gun Control: The Theory That A Woman Found Dead In An Alley, Raped And Strangled With Her Panty Hose, Is Somehow Morally Superior To A Woman Explaining To Police How Her Attacker Got That Fatal Bullet Wound.