Quote from bigarrow:
What your describing as libertarian sounds more like anarchy and antisocial. There has to be rules for a society to operate as a society. There are probably places to go in the world with very few rules but even the wealthy don't really want to live in places like that.
And I disagree with the premise that the free market would solve those problems, go to some third world countries where there is no meat inspections or water standards and you will see the free market does not do as good a job there as our government regulations do here.
B.S. as a libertarian i have no problem with laws, only if someone causes harm to another person, the three examples you gave were meat, traffic lights and air traddifc controllers. The countries you are talking about with no laws is not the same thing as having a free market with little to no regulation but laws which come into place if you harm someone.
Do you really think if airports were private they wouldnt have air traffic controllers, knowing they were liable if they kill someone?
There are private roads in toronto that are pay per kilometer, miraculously they all have signs on them, and they manage to operate with no help from the government, they are also much better maintained then the other roads, and there is less traffic.
In terms of meat, go to any third world country and walk through a meat market and everyone would agree the conditions are atrocious, and yet you dont hear about people dying en masse. If tainted meat became to much of a problem you would end up with private companies who would regulate and sign off on certain meat, that meat would end up selling at a higher price, because people would be willing to pay more for the good meat.
There is almost nothing the free market can not do better and cheaper than the government, given the fact that the only service i actually get from the government is the use of the roads, i would gladly pay a few cents a kilometer if it meant not paying a 100k tax bill every year.
