Gen X Libertarian

Whether you believe Trump is "Making America Great Again" or "Destroying America", I thought it might be prudent to review the bills he has received and signed from the Republican controlled Congress in his first 140 days.  All 37 of them. 1 TALENT Act of 2017 2 A bill to provide for an exception to a limitation against appointment of persons as Secretary of Defense within seven years of relief from active duty as a regular commissioned officer of the Armed Forces. 3 GAO Access and Oversight Act of 2017 4 Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of a rule submitted by the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to "Disclosure of Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers". 5 Disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of the Interior known as the Stream Protection Rule. 6 Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Soc...

Voluntary Road Funding                 It has become a cliché of the Statist vs Libertarian argument to ask “But who would build the roads?”  One side argues that if you didn’t force people to pay for the roads through mandatory taxation, then no roads would exist.  But the other side argues that roads existed prior to mandatory taxation and that businesses and individuals would voluntarily fund the roads because they are useful.  Then the argument devolves into some form of debate over how everything becomes some version of a toll road and that’s just not fair to poor people, how does such a system prevent freeloading non-payers from “stealing” the roads others have funded, and many more similar examples.  As a Libertarian, I concede that the argument for voluntarily funding the roads desperately needs to be fleshed out.  It needs to be presented in a way that makes sense to the g...