I love #Libertarianism, but absolute economic libertarianism is nuts. The social stuff is pretty good, but economic?

What inspired me to write today is an episode of Ron Paul's Liberty Report; they were talking about how Trump wants to stop funding NPR and PBS due to them being biased.

As a free market, absolutist. Ron Paul, of course, says, well, we should just never fund them in the first place.

The only thing I can say in favor of PBS is that I've seen a lot of programming on there that's quality and great for families that I've never seen anywhere else, but I don't really know why the private sector couldn't fulfill that role.

NPR, on the other hand, is an extremely valuable resource, if it is not biased.

A resource that just can't work in the private world. How can non-biased news succeed in a world where lies a manipulation are going to win the attention of everyday people?

If the money is not there to support it, then the private industry can't handle it. And we have to fund these things publicly if we want real useful news. Conversely, I mean, if people aren't watching it enough for it to fund itself, then are enough people going to watch it?

That's a great question. But if I could just say, "hey, go listen to the NPR stream." They're going to tell you exactly what you need to hear. We'd be far better off.

And this is exactly why libertarian economics cannot work. Yeah, we should fund very, very few things. However, If the private sector cannot make it happen, and it's a valuable resource, then the public sector needs to do it.

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