Sentences with phrase «libertarian position»

And to be honest, I'm not entirely sure that there exists a unified libertarian position on whether such «first claim» property ownership should or should not be taxed.

Our libertarian friends would argue that our inability to establish a stable conservative - but - not - libertarian position in the national culture is a sign of the incoherence of our principles, a sign that our attempt to reconcile freedom, an entrepreneurial economy, and human dignity with the safety net and the regulatory state is just an attempt to have our cake and eat it, too.

Other civil libertarian positions include support for at least partial legalization of illicit substances (marijuana, etc.), a strong demarcation between religion and politics, and, more recently, support for gay marriage.

He has Libertarian positions on everything from gay marriage to the legalization of marijuana.

Why the conservative or libertarian position in those values disputes is to act without precaution, handwave damages to posterity, or to endorse acting with total disregard for the pain and suffering our emissions will cause people abroad is a mystery to many.

I'm currently laying the groundwork for a book on American liberty, in which I argue there are five fundamental conceptions of it, one of which is the «economic individualist» liberty exemplified by the Lochner decision's defense of a right to contract, and which is sort of the libertarian position minus the drugs and prostitution legalization.

Note that it is difficult to make a coherent argument from a libertarian position that this was «just bad apples», because if the «bad bankers» of Iceland be merely «random» bad apples, they caused Iceland to have to reject basic principles of free market economics like «there should be no capital controls».

During the leadership race, however, David Davis led the party towards a libertarian position on ID cards and the issue of 42 days.

By now you will have understood that I am sympathetic to the libertarian position, and I wonder whether the debtors» friends in Congress have a covert agenda, namely to keep those with poor credit from taking on debt even when these debtors are fully informed of the risks and costs and quite willing to bear them.

Their position is driven by Culture War animosity towards greens, scientists, do - gooders and so on, or by ideological commitment to a conservative / libertarian position that would be undermined by the recognition of a global problem that can only be fixed by changes to existing structures of property rights.

Why the conservative or libertarian position in those values disputes is to act without precaution, handwave damages to posterity, or to endorse acting with total disregard for the pain and suffering our emissions will cause people abroad

Indeed, it is arguably even possible to sympathize with the libertarian position on judicial review and yet argue that in some types of cases, courts should be more deferential than in others; or at least I have taken this position, though perhaps I'm just a faint - hearted libertarian.

The libertarian position, by contrast, has the virtue of consistency, as does the (hypothetical?)