I have read that the reason there will never be a libertarian society is that libertarian are so individualistic that they can't agree on anything - it's like herding cats. Libertarians are a querrelsome lot, but hey, come to think of it, that might apply to us here too?Jerry Taylor is a left leaning libertarian who was once a member of the Cato Institute and in his interesting article he points out some of the faults, in his opinion, in libertarianism thinking. He believes that a strong, but limited, government which he says will give people the most freedom. One thing I like about this article is that he says that many libertarians would give up on libertarianism if it did not create the better society for everyone they had hoped for.Those of us on the left also argue that a fair,
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Jerry Taylor is a left leaning libertarian who was once a member of the Cato Institute and in his interesting article he points out some of the faults, in his opinion, in libertarianism thinking. He believes that a strong, but limited, government which he says will give people the most freedom. One thing I like about this article is that he says that many libertarians would give up on libertarianism if it did not create the better society for everyone they had hoped for.
Those of us on the left also argue that a fair, benign, and truly democratic government will give us the most freedom. State healthcare frees people from a lot of worry, and there's no need to spend hours going over the small print when choosing health insurance only to find that there is still lots of get out clauses when you go to claim. In a state system a panel of experts will spend weeks, if not months, reading the small print and negotiating the best deal.
Employment rights give the majority of people more freedom too, and so on.
By the time you have got a society that balances the maximum freedom for people while ensuring that businesses can work at their best too, Jerry Taylor's libertarian state might not be much different to Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party run state.