Libertarians are fiscal realists. Everyone knows there is no such thing as a free lunch, yet when it comes to politicians and voters, the siren song of "free this" or "free that" is apparently too tempting, especially when melded with an important issue that the government says it will solve. If you look at the record, however, whatever politicians and government gets into is rarely if ever solved, and the problems around it always seem to grow. Readers would do well to note the pattern.
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