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#50A LIBERTARIAN

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I oppose 1) taxes beyond those needed to provide law enforcement / national defense, 2) government interference with free market forces, and 3) laws limiting individual freedom--restricting speech / public expression, limiting firearms, requiring military service, making certain acts crimes where there’s no victim, restrictions on private property use, etc. Freedom is protected by such property, so governments should not appropriate it for public welfare. (Note: Libertarians preaching abolition of government are often called anarcho-capitalists.)

Alternate Concise Characterization with Wikipedia Entries:

values free markets, limited role of state,  minarchism

values individual freedom, self-ownership, own labor

values private ownership, private property rights 

would abolish state, values Anarcho-capitalism

summary Wikipedia article:  Libertarianism

Numerical Characterization with TFJD code: 3222

Numerical Characterization with Emotional Volatility VI index: 16

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