- Reaction score
- 35
- Points
- 560
And a Libertarian response to "nanny state" laws:
http://www.barrelstrength.com/2012/03/23/putting-your-libertarian-principles-to-the-test/
http://www.barrelstrength.com/2012/03/23/putting-your-libertarian-principles-to-the-test/
Putting your libertarian principles to the test
March 23, 2012 10:07 am Dalwhinnie Political Correctness
The superb Dr. Sean Gabb, leader of the British libertarians, puts his money where his mouth is. On the subject of making alcohol more expensive, as the Cameron government currently proposes, he writes:
“These measures, if adopted, amount to an attack on the poor. The ruling class politicians who continually whine about alcohol will not be affected by minimum pricing or the abolition of special offers. I might add that none of them can be affected by such laws. Income aside, anyone who lies his way into Parliament can look forward to round the clock drinking in the Palace of Westminster of untaxed alcohol.
“But the measures will hurt poor people, for whom alcohol will become cripplingly expensive and hard to find. They have the same right to drink as the rest of us. Bearing in mind the problems willed on them by our exploitative ruling class, they often have a greater need to drink.
“The claim that drinking ’causes’ public disorder is nonsense. Alcohol does not run about the streets. People do. If people are making nuisances of themselves, the police should be instructed to stop behaving like some equivalent of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and to start protecting life and property again.
Sean Gabb is leading a crusade against how the governing classes of Britain are screwing the people who live there. God bless you, sir! I would that more were like him.