I sometimes joke about living in a libertarian fantasy world, maybe even a libertarian nation with a libertarian anthem.
Amazingly, that is basically what Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, is trying to create.
At least the libertarian nation part. He has all sorts of proposals that I like, including smaller government, deregulation, and free trade.
But Articulo 209 is my favorite. He wants to prohibit the government from saying that goodies from the government are “free.”
Here’s a tweet describing his proposal.
I’ve talked to friends in Argentina. Articulo 209 has been proposed rather than passed.
Nonetheless, I’m tremendously impressed that President Milei is pushing the idea.
Truth in government would be an amazing development.
Maybe it could eventually spread to the United States!
P.S. I’ve had no success in trying to convince Washington politicians that they shouldn’t lie about the definition of a budget cut, so it’s probably a lost cause to get them to copy Milei.
[…] definitely campaigned against the establishment and the elite, so he presumably qualifies. However, his agenda is to shrink the burden of government (and he’s doing a good job so far), which is contrary to the statist agenda of the […]
Observe the male mystic defending T. Roosevelt race suicide theory with borderless anarchy. If coercive males may invade a woman’s person, then why not invade Canada with girl-bullying Fenians. Borders protect rights of actual 14A persons born, not aggression by violent meddlers from the Dark Ages.
The trick is to declare a pregnant woman an unperson or Siamese twin. Once stripped of individual rights, enslavement into involuntary labor follows easily with dollop of mystical assumptions.
Um… jailing, robbing and shooting people over plant seeds, twigs, roots and leaves is prohibitionist coercion, NOT free trade. How do you imagine South America _became_ impoverished after TR began exporting shoot-first plant prohibitionism?
Milei got elected by. a nation in collapse, and will face huge difficulties and will take the blame for the challenges that will come. We need a Milei in the US before the collapse. But that won’t happen. Milei is wonderfully straightforward, it seems to me. Therefore a threat to politicians and progressives everywhere.
To John Michael Wagner. Excellent explanation. Especially to somebody who fails to see the big picture.
I’ll answer your abortion question two ways. One, few people are so ideologically pure that they adopt literally all viewpoints of any ideology. Someone who adopts 90% of libertarian beliefs can still reasonably be considered libertarian. Two, libertarianism doesn’t mean literally 100% unfettered freedom. For example, most libertarians probably support laws against murder. And a libertarian is allowed to possess an ethic of life that considers an unborn baby a human being that deserves approximately as much protection as a born human.
We need to do away with the use of “invest” by government workers as well.
Libertarian? How so, when blocking a woman’s right to abortion.