| >> you oppose social security and the minimum wage? We should let corporations exploit workers as much as they please and provide no care for the ones who can't wor At the federal level yes. State level is a different matter See I am originalist when it comes to the constitution, and I see nothing in Article 1 Section 8 that grants the federal government the power to set a minimum wage, or provide for social security. I dont believe it is wise to simply ignore the constitution when it inconvenient to political goals If the federal government needs the power the proper channel do that is via a constitutional amendment that would grant said power Further on Social Security, I would actually go farther. I believe the execution of Social Security is highly unethical as is the funding source for it (income taxation). For public finance I support a Henry George Style single tax system. Such a system would not only be completely constitutional it would enable either a UBI or a Friedman style negative income tax that would serve not only for elder care, but also the poor in a way that is not unethical (like income tax clearly is) and is not unconstitutional You have also incorrectly attributed me as being conservative libertarian. While it is true socially I am libertarian, economically when it comes to public finance I ascribe to Georgism making me Geo-Libertarian, not conservative libertarian. I support a VERY VERY limited government, distributed in power where the most impactful government to an individual should be as close tot hat individual as possible, as such I believe most things should be done at the city, county and state level. With very little being done at a Federal Level. I believe income based taxation is unethical and is akin to labor theft that in other context would be viewed as a form of slavery. I believe socialism is untenable as an economic construct that has always and will always fail unless we get to the point where we have Star Trek levels of technology and resources are with out most limits. However while we are constrained to this planet, with a limited set of resources socialism can never work. Socialism @ our technology level will falter when a community gets to be about 100-200 people. Small socialist communities can work, large ones cant, national ones generally devolve to mass suffering and death |