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To: New Orleans Slim

Any so-called libertarian that advocates unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats writing law is no libertarian. Let me help you out a bit - unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats writing law to control the citizenry is, by definition, a dictatorship.

Nice try, Slim.


30 posted on 02/08/2005 6:11:43 AM PST by sergeantdave (Smart growth is Marxist insects agitating for a collective hive.)
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To: sergeantdave

"Any so-called libertarian that advocates unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats writing law is no libertarian. Let me help you out a bit - unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats writing law to control the citizenry is, by definition, a dictatorship."

Perhaps we should elect FBI agents, military personnel, CIA agents, and the President's administrative assistant. Those guys are all bureacrats (just with more glamorous jobs than the jokers at the DMV)? The EPA, like all agencies is accountable through our elected offcials.

Come to think about it, I'm not all that fond of elected officials who in some ways are only accountable to the mob that voted them in. Somehow, I wouldn't have any fondness for Communists even if they were elected into office.

As for being a libertarian, that means believing in markets and the liberty of people to participate in markets. But given that markets work best when there are no externalities, I actually want the government to internalize these to transactions. You know, things like courts where I can get a contract enforced, police to arrest con-men and other fraudsters. It's economics 101 - crack a book and check it out.

You've confused libertarianism with anarchy.


32 posted on 02/08/2005 8:43:19 PM PST by New Orleans Slim
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