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Libertarian
* Many libertarians are wary of religion
  - call themselves anarchists or anarcho-capitalists or anarcho something or other
  - claim socialism means forcing people to work for the state at the point of a gun
  - have a strong interest and appreciation for all sorts of science
  - invest heavily in the building of logical arguments
  - love to debate the principles of liberty
* Most libertarians are opposed to property taxes
  - focus their energies on domestic issues
  - view government as a destroyer of liberty
* SOME libertarians are also pacifists and decline the use of any force.
* Some libertarians are pacifists
  - believe that all violence is unjust
  - subscribe to a very simple notion of morality
  - worry that the environmental movement threatens liberty
* accept, while determinists reject, the idea of agent causation.
* advocate a free marketplace for services, goods, thought and speech
  - high degree of both personal and economic liberty
  - new notion of democratic decision making, the idea of the super majority
  - both economic and civil liberty
  - maximum individual freedom, initiative, and self reliance
  - much less government, individual responsibility, and personal freedom
  - self-government
* also extend the sphere other social interactions
  - have dreams, however improbable, about winning over the poor and minorities
  - note that city laws which disarm the citizens give criminals the advantage
  - object that there is no libertarian country to emigrate to
  - support privatizing the public school system
* always oppose initiation of violence
  - put freedom first
* apply the non-coercion principle to all human behavior.
* are a conservatives conservative
  - cult
* are against all taxes or against high taxes
  - foreign aid
  - governemnt vouchers for private schools
  - all over the map when it comes to ideology
  - also quite active on the Internet
* are anarchists at heart
  - with money
  - big on personal rights
  - colour-blind, treating all people as sovereign individuals with the rights thereof
  - correct in condemning the growing power of the federal government
  - different
  - fanatical about freedom and egalitarians about equality
* are far less caught up in the notion of privacy
  - more loyal to their principles than to party interests
* are for real change
  - the people and demand smaller government
  - upholding the Constitution
  - ideologues, and they have an ideology every bit as much as the communists had
  - individualists
  - intelligent agents
  - into linear reasoning and quantitative analysis
  - moral idealists
  - neither Left nor Right on the political spectrum
  - often grotesquely anti-environmental in terms of regulation
  - persons who are, above almost everything else, highly individualistic
  - philosophers
  - practical idealists
  - rights abiding , choice driven, principled and honest in their thinking
* are self-governors in both personal and economic issues
  - economic matters
  - serious about ending the drug war
  - still in a fight about over legalized abortion
  - the new evangelists
* are the only politicians with values
  - real alternative to the political status quo
  - original 'less government' party
  - tolerant
  - very aware and cautious of tyranny of the majority
* are, by definition, self-governors in both personal and economic matters.
* assert that the less government the better.
* believe each individual has the right to life, liberty, and property
  - even less in government solutions
  - everything is property
* believe in drastically smaller government
  - individual liberty and personal responsibility on all issues at all times
  - limited government, individual freedom, and personal responsibility
* believe in minimal government involvement on all political issues
  - government, which, of course, means minimal taxation
  - no government regulation at all
  - open discussion of all controversial issues
  - protecting the rights of the individual
  - small government, lower taxes, and greater personal responsibility
* believe in the American heritage of liberty, enterprise, and personal respons-ibility
  - liberty, patriotism, and personal responsibility
  - Constitution and the Bill of Rights
  - clear separation of legislative, executive, and judicial powers
  - repeal of laws regulating or prohibiting gambling
  - market growth is the best way to achieve livable communities
* believe that being free and indepen-dent great way to live
  - education is primarily a parental responsibility
  - free individuals remain free by limiting the powers of government
  - government has no proper role to play in education
  - honesty is always the best policy
  - human beings deserve to be treated with respect and decency
  - libertarians know the income tax is wrong
  - moral excellence has long range survival and economic advantages
* believe that people are sovereign
  - too evil to be trusted with the power of government
* believe that property belonging to everyone is the responsibility of no one
  - rights come from self-ownership
  - the government has no business dictating morality
* believe the least in human goodness
  - most in human goodness
  - wilderness lands and open spaces are best protected by voluntary groups
* buy more guns, but anarchists use more ammo.
* can often come off as cold and uncaring.
* chafe against virtually all forms of government activity.
* complain that the state is parasitic, an excrescence on society.
* defend individual rights.
* define natural rights as the practice of non-aggression.
* deplore the initiation of force and violence, by government or anyone else.
* disavow the initiation of force.
* do accept some limitations on personal behavior
  - believe in generally accepted moral principles
  - exist in both major parties
* eat babies.
* engage in a variety of projects, working for everyone's liberty on every issue.
* favor a free market, open to individuals who work hard and risk their own money
  - extremely limited government
  - freedom and oppose government action to promote either equality or order
  - increases in both economic and personal liberty
  - letting private charities be more involved
* feel that such policies are an unjustified infringement upon individual freedom.
* frequently prefer to decentralize government power by moving it to the states.
* generally favor open immigration as long as the immigrants are self-supporting.
* have a fierce commitment to reality
  - moral vision of a society that is just, because individuals are free
  - plan to reduce government and they mean what they say
  - no choice but to choose which rights they want government to elevate over others
  - nothing against orderly traffic and rules of the road
  - the strongest message in the world, a message of freedom
  - their own ludicrous literature and claims
* know all money is the people's.
* often encounter the common belief that all radical political groups are violent.
* oppose any prohibition on gun ownership by law abiding citizens
  - corporoate welfare
* oppose government funding of religious charities
  - takeovers and government imposed monopolies
  - gun control, income taxes and welfare
  - slavery, rape, theft, murder, and all other examples of initiated violence
  - the authoritative control of the internet
  - using public funds for campaigns
  - zoning because it violates individual property rights
* place importance on procedure, while leftists place importance on results.
* promote solutions based on voluntary cooperation over government action.
* realize that there is no perfect social system.
* recognize the crucial distinction between moral and political obligations.
* regard both statist recipes as false and harmful.
* reject the initiation of physical force as a means to their ends.
* rely on persuasion as the fundamental tool of social change.
* respect individual choice and independant thinking.
* say that markets give the right incentives, along with liability laws
  - obviousness is an objective notion
  - the government is actually the source of all the other problems
* see a society made up of individuals with rights
  - the individual as the basic unit of social analysis
* seek a world in which voluntary cooperation replaces force in human relationships
  - to advance their causes by persuasion
* seem to have a much greater representation on the Net than elsewhere.
* serve the state all the better because they declaim against it.
* speak against state's drug-war sentencing.
* stand for freedom of choice.
* stand for individual liberty and personal responsibility on all issues at all times
  - liberty, personal responsibility, and much smaller government
* strongly support gun ownership as a defense against crime and tyranny.
* support the free market for two reasons.
* take a skeptical view of government authority.
* tend to approach elections as simply a mass policy debate
  - be logical and analytical
  - distrust the conception of positive freedom
* think governments usually make the wrong decisions
  - if people want to drive cars without wearing seat belts, it is their own choice
  - people can take care of the poor without the government
* treat each individual as unique, with great potential.
* understand the importance of freedom and rights in the pursuit of life in society.
* use a caring, people centered approach to politics
  - freedom to free our thinking and solve problems
* value the freedom of others.
* view government as the cause of a great many social problems
  - ownership in much the same light
* welcome people of all faiths who have a strong belief in personal liberty
  - voluntary social experimentation and the diversity it brings
+ Libertarianism, Government
  * All libertarians support cutting taxes back, and some libertarians believe the state should not take tax money at all. Libertarians think people can take care of the poor without the government. They believe that people should pay for the things that they want to use, but not have to pay for other things that they do not want. Libertarians would prefer to see taxation replaced with lotteries, user fees, and endowments.
  * Libertarians think if people want to drive cars without wearing seat belts, it is their own choice. They should not be forcibly stopped from doing that, not even by the state. No one should be forcibly stopped from doing that, not even by the state. Libertarians even say that if adults want to use harmful drugs, they should be allowed to do that, even if it spoils their lives. It is the drug user's own choice because it is the drug user's own body. As long as the drug user does not start using violence against other people or their legitimate property, no one should use violence against the drug user or the drug user's legitimate property, not even the government
  * Libertarians believe that property rights come from self-ownership. This means that because you have a right to control your own body, you also have a right to control what you make with it
  - Stopping violence
  * Some libertarians believe that all violence is unjust. Robert LeFevre was a libertarian who rejected all violence. However, most libertarians believe that there are some ways violence can be justified
  - Types of Libertarians, Other types
  * Most libertarians fall under one of the two types of libertarians listed above. But there are other types, too
+ Libertarianism: Politics
+ Tax, People who oppose taxes: Taxation