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bch 5 days ago

> Libertarians took over a town in NH and abolished town wide garbage collection.

Presumably this is the case you’re citing: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21534416/free-state-...

WalterBright 5 days ago | parent [-]

That sounds like a case of "Tragedy of the Commons", which is not free market.

Also, police is a requirement because libertarianism relies on government to protect peoples' rights. Gutting the police department is what anarchists do, not libertarians.

If you want to know of a successful libertarian experiement, see the founding of the United States. (Excluding the slave states, of course. Slavery is antiethical to libertarianism.)

_Algernon_ 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

No true scotsman

WalterBright 4 days ago | parent [-]

??

conception 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You mean the Articles of Confederation that failed because the government wasn’t strong enough?

WalterBright 4 days ago | parent [-]

The Articles of Confederation were not the founding of the United States. The founding was the Constitution.