"More hyperbole. Of course the gummint caters to the public. It's called democracy."
We don't live in a democracy. We live in a Republic, designed to protect the freedoms and liberty of the individual. Tyranny of the majority is exactly what our founding fathers warned us about. A democracy will always lead to socialism. Socialism will always lead to fascism. Do you really support abolishing our Republic in favor of a democracy?
"Modifying the terms of a license is something that happens all the time. When they raised the drinking age to 21, meaning that it is now illegal to serve a class of people it was formally legal to serve, should they have compensated tavern ownders for the lost business?"
Yep, and they grandfathered the legal drinkers at 18. The customer base was uneffected.
"Outlawing tobacco outright is infeasible. If you make is more and more unc0omfortable to be a smoker, you'll be able to eliminate tobacco eventiually, recoup your costs in the interim, and not have to deal with the problems of prohibition."
So, you favor back door prohibition. You would prefer to socially engineer behavior in the name of the greater good. Now what makes you right winged?
Do you really support abolishing our Republic in favor of a democracy? It mostly appened long ago, with the abolition of the property requirements and direct elections for the Senate. Most of the measures the founders put in to prevent mob rule are already gone. But as it happens, the non-smoking rules I'm aware of were put in by elected officials, and therefore are as republican as you'd like.
Yep, and they grandfathered the legal drinkers at 18. The customer base was uneffected.
Not in any state I'm aware of. I was under 21 at the time they were beginning to raise it, state by state; I'm pretty sure it went up immediately, at least in Massachusetts.
So, you favor back door prohibition.
Yep. It's not social engineering. It's eradication of an evil. Conservatives (right-wingers, if you like) favor all sorts of simiilar measures - laws against prostitution, drugs, sodomy, strip-clubs, even pornography. In the past some of us supported prohibition of alcohol.
Don't confuse libertariaism with conservatism.