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Originally Posted by Racnad
Ron Paul is a libertarian. They stand for a small governent that taxes very little, the military is for repelling invasions only, and both business and private behavoir are mostly unregulated. This mean legal drugs, legal prostitution and your neighbor can open a bordello/drug market next door to your house.
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I think that is taking it a little bit to the extreme...
I'll add some more later.
Here is what I will add. You are correct about small government, lower taxes, and military policy is different from foreign policy. There are problems with libertarianism relating to corporations that would become too powerful in relation to the worker. But that isn't anything new.
The main thing about liberarianism is that you can do whatever you want to do with your life as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else.
If you are in the US, you can watch ABC's 20/20 this week and John Stossel (Libertarian) will be discussing health care with Micheal Moore (Liberal/Socialist). It should be interesting. And I think a mix of libertarian and socialist ideas would make the best health care system.
(socialism = high taxes, but government provides similar level of services to everyone.)