I'm a libertarian....I believe in Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. However since I believe in life I believe that everyone should have an unalienable right to free decent health care. That is the biggest thing our taxes should go to it shouldn't be defense. So I guess I believe in socialized medicine but to implement it we have to do it way more efficiently than anywhere else in the world. I dont mind paying taxes for that and in improving the public school system we have a couple generations now of pure idiots because that was never fixed. Outside of medical care, public education and defense everything else should be done on a local level or at least state. I believe in personal freedom and letting the individual be in control of their own destiny.We don't need dumbass laws like who can use what bathroom. What is socially acceptable in California is not in Alabama and each state sbould have control over that. So much of the polarization of US politics will go away if they just let individual states or even towns decide day to day policy themselves. I'm a very strong state's rights guy what's good for Connecticut may not be good for Minnesota and each state should be able to make their own paths.
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Agree I also believe that everyone should have an unalienable right to free decent health care.
You should read the constitution. You have the right to the pursuit of happiness. You have the right to free speech. You have the right to face your accusers, well, we'll see on that one...But no where do you have the right to have me pay for your wishes, dreams, or insurance premiums. Handle your business.
I don't believe I've ever met a libertarian that believed social medicine is the answer. For those of us paying insurance premiums for the last 40 years, only to have those premiums tripled while the services we've paid for for decades is no longer available to us. Socialized medicine is about as much part of the libertarian doctrine as Bernie Sanders is. I live in the Socialist Republic of California, we're getting a glimpse of what social medicine already looks like. Appointments that one used to make a week out have become 6 weeks out. Medicine's that the state decides you really don't need, (even with your doctors prescription) get replaced with meds that are cheaper and generally don't work. UNLESS of course you're an inmate in California. An inmate CANNOT receive medications that are NOT from the manufacturer. Nothing generic for our criminals. We also provide them with hormone shots and sex change operations at the tax payer expense, meanwhile, my 78 year old mother, who's paid her insurance premiums for more than 50 years has to go to Canada for her thyroid medication. I also feel strongly about states rights, but not when they go off the rails against federal law. When the 5 time felon picked up a gun, pulled the trigger, and killed Kate Steinle, and a SF jury can't even convict the guy of manslaughter, (which just happened to be the defenses case), then the State has failed to protect it's lawful citizens and needs to be brought to heel.
Steinle's killer got off because the DA & jury are the children of illegals. They were protecting their own kind.
I'm not really sure where you're locating your facts but, nothing you said was true. I was purely political and a travesty of justice any way you look at it.
The DA didn't charge the killer with charges appropriate to the crime.
In group preference is a real thing. Think about how many times you've thought of those not in your group as non-human.
And, there's no such thing as everyone liking everyone.
The constitution says Life, Liberty and pursuit of happiness....I'm sorry I just dont think cost should interject in whether or not someone gets the right to live or not. Life is to me an unalienable right, if it wasn't then what's the difference between this and murder in cold blood?
You aren't a libertarian.
"free decent health care" is not a right. Free decent food is not a right. Free decent housing is not a right. These things don't exist freely in nature. They are highly prized desires of all mankind but they require the sweat of someone to make them available. Taking/taxing away the valuable sweat equity of one person and giving it to another to pay for these so called "rights" is an immoral act leading to all sorts of inequities and inefficiencies. It's human nature. "That which we acquire too easily is not highly esteemed." Wasteful, inefficient consequences always result from such things. Bundling of health care into a giant government bureaucracy (think Veterans Administration) will inevitably and necessarily lead to poor quality of service and rising costs due to inefficient delivery. It's human nature.
Neither do rights.