Libertarians didn’t attach hundreds of benefits and penalties onto marriage, e.g., the estate tax break being considered by the Supreme Court.
The unintended consequence of these attachments is that gays are denied equal rights. My goodness, even Pope Francis, when a Cardinal, said there should be recognition of civil unions so gays could have equal rights.
Marriage pre-existed the state, but might not survive the state.
Libertarians didn’t erect a welfare program with benefits exceeding the earnings of people in neighboring countries.
The unintended consequences of these welfare benefits is to attract immigrants interested in welfare benefits.
Today, welfare as a right threatens to bankrupt the country.
Libertarians didn’t decide we should get into the business of “reconstructing” Iraq and Afghanistan. Even George W. Bush, as a candidate in 2000, said that would be foolish.
The unintended consequences of getting into the business of reconstructing foreign countries was the loss of the Republican majority in Congress in 2006 and of the White House in 2008.
We risked American Freedom on Iraqi Freedom and lost.
To misquote Rula Lenska, don’t hate us because we Libertarians are right all the time.
Usually libertarians astutely see the “thug” aspect of government- it’s a protection racket.
So now they want “freedom” from government’s most ancient succor of marriage but what they will get is less responsibility from government- Chief Og gives no protection to the “property” and still takes the money- and even more money! More welfare and law enforcement is needed in the new society of meaningless ‘marriages’.
Thesis: the breakdown of the family in the last 40 years has resulted in less dependency and government power in America- so finish marriage off!
Who can believe such foolishness?
Like the Hydra- you cut off one power of the government and it grows two more.
I don’t call what will happen an ‘unintended consequence”, I call it what it is- the result of stupidity. Meaning well just doesn’t prevent one from being stupid.
Libertarians want a society of strong families raising strong self-reliant citizens, and as usual do everything they can to prevent it.