[Outraged]

Libertarianism would work, if you could just have a world without democRATS, who would love to tax drugs and prostitution. Great idea...expand the government, subsidize the industries of prostitution and drug manufacturing and farming, misuse the revenues received from the taxation, create dependency programs and free-drug welfare assistance for the 'needy' addict and their family...and finally have the defense attorney lobby sue because of the fallout from the legalization of these industries.

Libertarianism is sort of like Marxism...Almost looks good on paper...but in practice, a nightmare!!!

[Joe Bonforte]

Libertarianism would work, if you could just have a world without democRATS, who would love to tax drugs and prostitution. Great idea...expand the government, subsidize the industries of prostitution and drug manufacturing and farming, misuse the revenues received from the taxation, create dependency programs and free-drug welfare assistance for the 'needy' addict and their family...and finally have the defense attorney lobby sue because of the fallout from the legalization of these industries.

Libertarianism is sort of like Marxism

I don't see any logic or reason in this post at all. You are somehow melding the divergent positions held by libertarians and liberals, and then assigning the blame for those positions to libertarians. That's silly.

Libertarians don't want any expansion of government, and want it dramatically reduced in many areas. That is completely consistent with the idea of ending drug prohibition, where government involvement does some of the worst damage, causing the cure to be worse than the disease, and destroying civil rights along the way.

Surely when drug policies are changed, the coalition of libertarians and conservatives will prevent the result being a dramatic expansion of the welfare state. There's absolutely no tangible reason to believe that liberatarian efforts will further the positions of the Democratic liberals.

[freeeee]

What you have pointed out is the failure of Marxism, not libertarianism. You show libertarianism as failing, but without first practicing it.

[Barnacle]

Libertarianism is sort of like Marxism...Almost looks good on paper...but in practice, a nightmare!!!

Unlike Marxism, the nightmare of Libertarianism is unlikely to ever be put in to practice.

I was unsure what Libertarianism was all about until seeing what Libertarians post on Free Republic. And let me say - I am not impressed.