I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word.

Give me a break - They say taxes are inevitable, like death. At least death doesn't come every year.

What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there's a free market, people will trade their surpluses to others for the things they lack. Mutual exchange for mutual benefit makes the community richer.

If individuals can take from a common pot regardless of how much they put in it, each person has an incentive to be a free rider, to do as little as possible and take as much as possible because what one fails to take will be taken by someone else.

Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?

The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.

Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust.