Look at how much revenue the U.S. federal government used to raise from selling federal land - and how much federal land remains unsold.
Mass privatization is the most realistic way to pay down the national debt and avoid a Greek-style financial crisis.
@marketsoyist …purposefully put in a child's line of sight is as bad as, if not worse than, giving them heroin or other substances that they aren't rational enough to consent to. BOOM! What used to be free speech is now an act of "aggression" in the same as giving a child heroin.
@marketsoyist …souls exist or not—it's a topic for theologians to debate and libertarianism remains true either way. But the soul is just as fundamental an aspect as the body. If that gets corrupted, you could be damned for all eternity. A pornographic poster, for example, that is…
@marketsoyist What numbskull considers abortion in terms of trespass? That horrifies pro-lifers because it's a question of life and pro-choicers because it demeans the importance of bodily autonomy by lowering the status of one's person to property.
@marketsoyist …that still plague the pro-life and pro-choice debate. Questions that libertarians think they can resolve with "property rights" and in compartmentalized from the rest of their worldviews (e.g., "libertarianism isn't a lifestyle philosophy").