>>I agree to a point, Kathy. I'm just wondering about the implications for real environmental protection, and curbing corporate abuses. For example, in a libertarian government, how do you avoid such things as the gulf oil spill, or the abuses of huge investment banks and corporations?

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>>It's a difficult balance to achieve.



I guess my objection to this is that it assumes corruption and tragedy would somehow be avoided if government controls things. I don't see how that would be true, humans in government are just as, if not more, corrupt, greedy and incompetent in the public sector than in the private sector. All you need to do is look at the DOI and other gov't agencies with no checks and balances. The head of the EPA is pushing "social justice", the educational system is a bloated beareaucracy on every level, etc., etc. Government control doesn't get rid of any "human" problems, it just adds more problems for responsible citizens.

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