🇺🇸 Want to keep NH from going the way of our New England Neighbors? We’re going to need a lot of help in the mid-term elections. 🫡

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        • yodeljunkmanenvy [fsp.org]@piefed.socialOP
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          9 months ago

          I think your comment is referring to crony capitalism, right? You will be happy to know that Libertarians oppose all bailouts. Businesses should succeed or fail based upon their efforts, not government intervention.

          There is an effort popularized by Congressman Ron Paul, arguably the Godfather of modern libertarianism, to end the Federal Reserve bank, which uses various financial levers to manipulate the economy. Most libertarians oppose this type of intervention. They support the previous gold standard, where all US money was backed by gold.

          Many of our people in New Hampshire own gold and/or use it to barter. They see Bitcoin as another asset free of government manipulation as well.

          Final note – I wouldn’t call myself a “hater” of any group. Even though we all disagree, we all want what is best for our society. I may disagree with the policies of Democrats or Republicans, but I respect them and agree to disagree 🙂

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                  9 months ago

                  Well, people are allowed to make money, as long as they are not cheating others to do so. That’s how we get better goods and services at better prices – free market competition. Normally when the government gets involved in something (like your growing tomatoes example), their intervention adds additional expense to the final product. As long as no party is being coerced, let people figure it out on their own without the government.

                  You mentioned a “closed system”. I interpreted that as one free from government intervention. I think most libertarians would support that.

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            8 months ago

            That’s exactly what I find so unfortunate. Most people assume ‘free markets’ automatically mean the system we have now: crony capitalism. It seems like people here have a deep-seated hatred for free markets, but just to be clear, saying this doesn’t make me an AnCap.