Libertarian FAQs
This is intended as a DRAFT for a page we might add to our web site, maybe even our Facebook Page. Please feel free to add questions, and answers if you have any. If you have a link that provides details, please include it in the answer. In fact, that's the main reason I created this page; I wanted a plcae to catalog articles that demonstrate how a libertarian world could work.
At some point we may want to provide categories and rearrange the questions. Meanwhile, add new questions at the end or next to a related question.
I would point out that Dr. Mary Ruwart has provided an excellent collection of Short Answers to the Tough Question. On some topics, like Defense and Welfare, American experience is presented. We should develop Canadian answers. (Check Amazon for Canadian prices.) (We might make this a footnote or Reference and link to it were appropriate.)
--Jim McIntosh 19:45, 14 August 2016 (EDT)
Who will build the roads?[edit]
What about the poor?[edit]
Have Libertarians been elected anywhere?[edit]
The answer is "YES." Many have been elected at state and municipal levels in the USA. can we provide specific cases, with links?
According to Wikipdia three Libertarians were elected to the Alaska House of Representatives between 1978 and 1984 and another four to the New Hampshire General Court in 1992. Neil Randall won election to the Vermont House of Representatives in 1998.
Ron Paul was clearly libertarian although he was elected and re-elected to the US Senate as a Republican. He ran as the US Libertarian Party's Presidential Candidate in 1988.
Otto Guevara, a member of the Libertarian Movement Party (Spanish: Partido Movimiento Libertario; PML) was elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica in 1998. In 2002 the Party won 6 of the 57 seats although one member defected a few weeks later.
What films would you recommend?[edit]
George Dance on his Political Animal blog abstracts Jo Ann Skousen's review of the films Race and Eddie the Eagle on Liberty Unbound as two good examples, "... in which a protagonist achieves a goal or overcomes obstacles without turning to the government to fix things." Skousen goes on to comment that, "... both are based on true stories about Olympic athletes who achieved their goals in spite of government interference, not because of government aid. Race tells the Jesse Owens story, and Eddie the Eagle tells the Michael Edwards story. Both are worth seeing."