Multifarious

Myriad Reality

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Iris: That would be wonderful!
- There's more?!

@Ignacious

Yep. I have a brother and eleven sisters.

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

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The implication in "Small business needs less regulation survive because big businesses are capable of affording regulation" is that big businesses can easily blow the small businesses out of the water without breaking a sweat. Which is to say, if your argument is true, small businesses are shit out of luck no matter what happens. If you get rid of regulation, big businesses use that windfall to price small business out of the market. They can afford to pay for better employees, and they can afford to sell their services for less. So if you are right, and the old myth about small businesses being victimized by regulation is correct, than it don't matter because those same small businesses will fail in a free market. What you get now is unregulated big businesses free to run rampant across the little guy.

As for the TPP, I'm sure Libertarians have their own pet reason for not liking it, but the main reason the common folk are quoting is that it makes it easier for American industry to use overseas labor. And it is that borderless commerce that the term "Free market" actually means. Adam Smith didn't give a fuck about taxation or environmental regulation, his deal was the ability for goods and labor to compete equally with that produced overseas.

@Vilageidiotx

I don't feel like it's a matter of regulation vs. non-regulation so much as it is disliking certain policies. I, for one, am all for government's prevention of the formation of monopolies, among other things... But again, that might be my near-centrism talking.

Myriad Reality

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Why don't you like fighting?

@Etcetera

It hurts, mainly.

Myriad Reality

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Izel:....Well. i'm glad that you are alive, mom.
Iris: I am ever more glad to see you alive, Izel.
*goes over to hug you*
Welcome home.
*turns to Jellal*
Sorry you had to hear that. You are always welcome to come over.

@Ignacious

I'm sure you'd want to meet my brother and sisters as well.

Myriad Reality

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Huh. Never figured that.

@Etcetera

*Nods*

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

a lot of them believe they are like anarchists for instance

@SleepingSilence

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Those kinds of libertarians are the kind that want to use libertarianism as a stepping stone to support what is really their anarchist beliefs.

@Multifarious

Myriad Reality

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If you say so.

@Etcetera

But to be clear, I don't enjoy it either. It's just not as unenjoyable.

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

To think we should remove all or almost all Government regulations?

@Dynamo Frokane

Those kinds of libertarians are the kind that want to use libertarianism as a stepping stone to support what is really their anarchist beliefs... Or maybe it's just my near-centrism that gives me that point of view. I dunno.

Myriad Reality

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Why? Isn't that a bit contradictory?

@Etcetera

There's difference enough for it not to be.

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

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Looking at 'on the issues.' It says he's pretty far left, which honestly makes at a lot more sense given topics I've heard him discuss. Not saying it's a bad thing per say. But will say that chart MIGHT be inaccurate. ontheissues.org/Bernie_Sanders.htm I'm not saying this site is perfect but its at least a bit more detailed. :3

@SleepingSilence

I'll say you're probably right. Clinton's probably been in all four quadrants as much as she flip-flops. I've seen that site before, and actually used some of the information there on my senior research paper. It's a good site, but a political compass is a nice little visual reference you can take a glance at real quick and get a feel for things.

It's also important to keep in mind that American politics are largely, extremely right as it is, so anything close to the y-axis on a, or at least the specific political compass I used, is considered "left" by American standards. At least, so I've been told.