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To: who_would_fardels_bear
The really silly thing about libertarianism is that anyone with a sufficient amount of intellect and stick-to--it-iveness (and a modicum of luck) could live a libertarian-like lifestyle so long as they didn't try and impose it on anyone else. If you are wealthy and discrete you can get away with a heckuva lot for a heckuva long time.

 

You don't have to be wealthy. I wouldn't call my son in law a libertarian; but he is quite poor, but he manages just fine as he buys, fixes and sells cars for a living. He's never paid any income tax as he is off the grid. He owns some 8-10 cars at a time but they are open titles and so he pays no sales tax or registration fees. He'll buy a junker for a few hundred bucks, fix it, sell it, and clear a thousand or so.

He and my daughter are quite happy, so I'm happy for them. He's a poor "John Galt".

19 posted on 11/01/2017 9:05:14 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd
The "living off the grid lifestyle" is one of the ways that libertarians undermine their own agenda.

If everyone were forced to live under all of the current set of laws, taxes, and regulations then there would be a greater groundswell for less government.

However, so many people are able to sneak around in the gray market that the current system persists.

Where I live it used to be that everyone with a commercial van would plaster it with ads and phone numbers in order to solicit business as they drove around town. Now most of the vans are plain white with no markings. And I'm sure those that drive them will only take cash when they fix someone's plumbing or electricity.

20 posted on 11/01/2017 9:14:02 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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