Recent content by Rob

This is a terrific post and you ask an important question. Thank you. In my view we should focus almost all of our energies at the local level. We need to build communities and support structures at a local level before we can can hope to have a meaningful input at the State or Federal level...

Fair enough. We also need to recognise that one person in that role is heavily reliant on those around him for support and to execute his strategy. There is room for different strategies but what is going on with his views on the Ukraine war and the Israel/Palestine war. Is he just pandering to...

His stance on Israel, Ukraine and support for the US generally is also a big concern.

What do you mean by justifiable? If it reduces my tax then it is justifiable by me. Is it logically consistent? Patrick has provided an answer to that. Can the government justify it? - they can justify anything they want since, after all, they seem to claim ownership to everything.

Hayek is great on many things but absolutely hopeless on this. I recommend reading/listening to Hoppe or Kinsella to get a good understanding of what libertarians mean by coercion, why we oppose it and why taxes are never justified. Both Rothbard (Rothbard vs The Philosophers) and Raico...

Agreed not perfect but good nevertheless. I wonder who his target audience was? Perhaps he was just having fun, I would if I was him.

Two good books that give a sense of this are Private Governance (Stringham) and Anarchy Unbound (Leeson). There are plenty of others.

If you haven't listened to Milei's speach at Davos 2024 it is worth listening to. I am surprised that Milei is not generating more interest in the libertarian community.

This is interesting, it wont be up for long though...

I forgot to mention that Stand Up Now are also active, https://www.standupnowaustralia.com.au/

Fair enough. This reminds me of a response of Rothbard's that a libertarian is defined as someone who hates the State. I also agree with you that libertarian socialists have a stronger historical claim to the term but happy socialists are not my concern. My main issue though is the claim that...

Hopefully Australia doesn't have to go through what the Latin American countries have before we get a vibrant libertarian movement here!

You could look at https://childrenshealthdefense.org.au/ Childrens Health Defense have been outspoken on this issue.

My question is based upon a single article, in Zerohedge from memory, that the US SEC was releasing new regulations that would require crypto exchanges to keep detailed records on each transaction with the aim of being to trace all flows through the exchange. Australia and the rest of the...

Conza, I am interested in your thoughts on the recent move by the US to break the crypto mixers?