5 Reasons You Can’t Just “Stop Using” Government Services

1) You Have to Use Some Government Services

Perhaps the most damning argument against that which progressives make towards libertarians is that you are legally required to participate in government programs, so it’s impossible for you to give them up. You have to buy healthcare or be fined thousands of dollars. You have to follow the rules of the drug war or be imprisoned. You have to send your kids to school, and even if you don’t send them to a public institution, you have to pay for them anyway. There are government programs you’re obligated to partake in whether you like it or not. The question from progressives shouldn’t be, “If libertarians dislike the government, why don’t you give up it’s services?” It should be, “If libertarians dislike the government, why doesn’t the government leave them alone?

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