7 Issues Where Donald Trump is MORE Libertarian than Gary Johnson

NATO.

Gary Johnson was asked if the United States should continue to be a part of NATO, and whether we should keep spending US taxpayer money, based on relative GDP, for its collective defense.  He said, “Yes, and refusing to defend other NATO countries sets a dangerous precedent for the balance of global power.”  Again, we have the Libertarian candidate for the presidency calling for a global alliance, funded mostly by American taxpayers, for the purposes of military spending on behalf of mostly foreign nations.

Donald Trump is no fan of NATO.  Among other criticisms, he doesn’t like that the American taxpayers are on the hook for having about 65,000 troops stationed in Europe.  It’s a valid question.  Why should you and I, the American taxpayer, fund the defense of an industrialized nation like Germany, while the German taxpayer gets to spend his tax money on improving his country’s infrastructure and social programs like welfare and healthcare?  Is that really a Libertarian position?