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2. Wondered About Libertarians and Governmental Politics

Reply to salvorhardin (Original post)

Wed Aug 15, 2012, 04:39 PM

Aug 2012

At one point in the piece Jennifer Burns stated Ayn Rand would have hated the idea of public service. I wondered if a true Libertarian could go into governmental politics. No matter how you talk about it governmental politics deals with allocating taxpayer money. If you take government money to help your district it seems like you would be going against Libertarian ideas.

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