2016: America elects libertarian president and libertarians control majorities in the house and senate.
2017: Federal government disbands, CDC, FEMA, EPA, USDA, FDIC, the Fed, and various other regulatory programs and agencies. Shortly thereafter ends any sort of regulation of international trade.
2018: Ends medicare, social security, and veterans administration. Government fully privatizes education and healthcare, ends state and federal grants for college education and infrastructure, and reaffirms at-will employment by abolishing minimum wage laws, child labor laws, worker safety laws, and laws prohibiting various forms of discrimination. (The free market has the best answers for people with disabilities). These issues are the realm of tort law!
2019: Government dramatically lowers taxes and reforms the tax code, budget deficit is being paid off. Administration cuts military spending by 90%, closes bases overseas, and adopts a non-interventionist foreign policy.
2020: Libertarians revel in libertarian paradise, re-elect administration.
2021: Progressive governments/economies in the European Union, continue spending heavily on education investment and government subsidies of renewable energy. For a long time renewable energy sources are not competitive in a free market, but these governments, acting outside market influence, exercise centralized planning.
2022: A spike in consumption in the now unregulated United States in the last decade, along with the exponential growth of energy use in China, India, Indonesia, and Brazil has depleted fossil fuel reserves more quickly than expected and prices start to skyrocket.
2023: The price of petroleum strangles the US economy as private entities scramble to develop efficient infrastructure and now-competitive renewable energy. Meanwhile, Europe is able to sustain a boom in manufacturing and general economic well-being due to dramatically lower energy costs and efficient urban planning/mass transit.
2024: Velious is released on p99.
2025: The thriving European economy pulls further ahead of the United States than it already was in 2012, in nearly every metric for human development and welfare.
2026: Ron Paul admits he hates ******s and then dies. In his hand is a worn-out copy of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged; some of the pages are stuck together.
That is how I feel about libertarianism.
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