Originally Posted by
KShedd
From my understanding, many libertarians in the US see a place for government, but it has very limited power over the individual.
So, the government would facilitate national defense, maintain law and order between people (but not infringe upon the individual sovereignty), maintain public utilities like interstates.
For this type of libertarian, only consumption taxes and tariffs are acceptable to facilitate these limited functions. Property taxes and income taxes are an infringement upon individual sovereignty.
There is no inherent morality built into this system, so an individual can overdose on heroine in front of your apartment and you can let him die in his choice.
So, to make this system function well, some sort of moral system needs to be grafted in. The Founders understood this and grafted Christian morals and ethics into the system, (though in recent days it appears society has rejected that graft).
So it’s not anarcho-capitalism. But perhaps not the truest sense of libertarianism either. Perhaps this would be considered conservative libertarian or constitutional libertarian.