tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421039709321794850.post4073978554259197629..comments2023-10-23T14:33:38.071-07:00Comments on Burg Berry: Libertarian Loonies: Liberty vs. LicenseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421039709321794850.post-20607375688247113682012-11-03T08:06:40.498-07:002012-11-03T08:06:40.498-07:00Greg--That is an excellent point. I can't thin...Greg--That is an excellent point. I can't think of anything to add. I feel almost bewildered about that, but that's my problem. Thanks for your comment.Gailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13719154384364654744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421039709321794850.post-65342241821985119002012-11-01T11:45:02.609-07:002012-11-01T11:45:02.609-07:00Gail: Regarding the tainted meat scenario. There a...Gail: Regarding the tainted meat scenario. There are several possible solutions to that which are acceptable to libertarians. The ideological stance is generally that the GOVERNMENT should not be solely responsible for the solution.<br /><br />For example, you could structure it so that virtually all butchers were franchises of a few brand-name stores, and the stores had clear incentives to police their own meat lockers, or risk the entire corporation being sued out of business. <br /><br />Or you could set it up so that every business was privately insured against liability; but as a condition of low insurance rates, the insurance company paid a private meat inspector to check up on you once a year.<br /><br />You could even structure a method where a privately owned meat inspection business recieved bounties based on successfully finding and prosecuting butchers for neglicence and public endangerment. Bounties might be paid by health insurance companies, competing butcher shops, or even as government awards for successfully prosecuting criminals.<br /><br />The point isn't that butcher shops shouldn't be inspected: it's that the Governments involvment, and thus monopoly and sovereign immunity, should be as small as possible. In theory, the Government's only role in this would be presiding over lawsuits, creating laws for criminal neglicence and manslaughter which covered failing to exercise due care over meat products, and maybe sponsoring a industry convention once a year to discuss what the current legal definition of 'due care' in the meat industry business should be.<br /><br />I'm not quite crazy enough to vote for liberterians in a close election, but a lot of their ideas have a certain elegance to them. I'd certainly approve of a political system where the successful 'moderate' was somewhere between a center-right republican and a libertarian. Krennhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05709359305577677184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421039709321794850.post-49572220751836790762012-11-01T07:34:54.875-07:002012-11-01T07:34:54.875-07:00Watch for the marble in the unfunded mandate shell...Watch for the marble in the unfunded mandate shell game. Government says to business, thou shalt pay for health care which may include abortions. Business thinks this stinks but, as it is required, calculates it as a cost of doing business which the consumer pays as part of the purchase price. We are the consumer in aggregate so effectively the government has forced the populace to pay for the mandate. Obama's name may not be on the check but his fingerprints are all over it.Gregoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17277800907637375658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421039709321794850.post-28684743687166947532012-10-31T22:51:17.579-07:002012-10-31T22:51:17.579-07:00Curse you, Perry the Platypus! Now I must research...Curse you, Perry the Platypus! Now I must research the Hyde Amendment. Will you never allow me to escape and go to bed? YOU get to escape all the time!Gailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13719154384364654744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421039709321794850.post-74634063736565110032012-10-31T22:43:47.187-07:002012-10-31T22:43:47.187-07:00Thank you for your response. But I would point out...Thank you for your response. But I would point out that even President Obama doesn't "fund" abortions -- doing so is illegal under the Hyde Amendment. :-)Carolynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10691867023839548351noreply@blogger.com