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| Subject: Anarcho-Capitalist NEWS: LP Presidential Candidate Jacob Hornberger on Socialism, Freedom, and Reform vs. Repeal Mon Feb 10, 2020 5:25 pm | |
| The day of the Iowa Caucuses (or as it turns out, the first day of the caucuses), I had a chance to talk to Jacob Hornberger. He’s the president and founder of the Future of Freedom Foundation, and is currently running for the Libertarian presidential nomination with the backing of the Mises Caucus.
He’s got not just a Ron Paul bent, but a Ron Paul cadence. In the words of this site’s founder, he is “too nice for politics”. We talked about modern problems, and in most cases his solution is simple and consistent— a return to freedom without intermediate steps of reform.
TLR: I’m talking with you the day of the Iowa caucus, a contest that Bernie Sanders could actually win. As such, I’d like to start with a couple of questions about socialism. In your presidential campaign announcement video, you called the following things socialism: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, public schooling, educational grants, farm subsidies, corporate bailouts and foreign aid to dictators. What does the US government currently do that you don’t think is socialism?
JH: Very little, in that the primary source, the driving force in the federal government is to take care of people through the coercive apparatus of the state. It seizes money from people to whom it belongs, and it gives it to people to whom it does not belong. That is classic socialism. It embodies the Marxian principle, from each according to his ability to each according to his need.
https://thelibertarianrepublic.com/lp-presidential-candidate-jacob-hornberger/ |
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