Reply #92: They have one big plus in their column

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Namely, the idea that the power of government over the individual should be clearly and irrevocably limited. The "War On Drugs,", abortion, gay/sexuality issues, terminal illness and pain-relieving drugs and so forth are all issues where a fundamentally Libertarian stance would do us all some good.

Much of the rest is just plain silly, particularly the idea that an extremely complex society of 300 million people can be best governed by the abolition of nearly every form of taxation and a return to the federal government size and structure of 1805.

The Onion headline that said it all for me (at least on non-civil liberties issues) was "Libertarian Reluctantly Calls Fire Department".