Wed, 6/15!: Ask a Libertarian w Nick Gillespie & Matt Welch!

Got a question for a libertarian? Then give it your best shot on Wednesday, June 15, when Reason's Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch answer any and all queries, such as:

How do you feel about net neutrality?
Who are you supporting in 2012?
Why do you hate poor people?
Do these pants make me look fat?
Aren't libertarians just Republicans who smoke pot?
What about the children?

Gillespie and Welch are the authors of the new book The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong with America, due out on June 28th. Early reviews have called Declaration "the up-to-date statement of libertarianism" (Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution); "an enthusiastic, entertaining libertarian critique of American politics (Kirkus Reviews); and "a political alarm clock" (Amy Alkon, The Advice Goddess). For more info and to pre-order from your favorite online bookseller, go to http://Declaration2011.com.

On Wednesday, from 10AM ET til 6PM ET, Gillespie and Welch, will receive questions via Facebook, Twitter, and email, and, with the help of Reason.tv's crack team of videographers (who may well be on crack that day), will post rapid-fire video responses to your most probing and provocative queries.

The lines open on Wednesday, so think up your toughest question and send it our way between 10AM ET and 6PM ET.

For more info go to: http://reason.com/blog/2011/06/13/coming-wed-june-15-ask-a-liber

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[SuperSneakySteve]

Who would win in a fight, John Stossel or a bear?

[Fratracide]

Should the age of sexual consent be 18? If no, at what point would you consider government intervention in sexual activity necessary?

[ThisMachineKillsReds]

These Cosmotarian Beltway Think-Tank types are NOT libertarians. They're efficiency experts for the state. Fuck these guys. Fuck Reason, fuck Cato.

[felpaluche]

Fun to watch.

[yakyakyak69]

@mistara31415 I don't hate, I LOVE ALL and I want the very BEST FOR ALL!

NOBODY should be ENSLAVED by the Statists... NOBODY!

ALL MUST BE FREE to succeed or fail ON THEIR OWN MERIT without Crony REDISTRIBUTION and Crony REGULATION.

Why do Statist Fascists and Socialists ALWAYS cry like little children and resort to name-calling when they realize that they are bankrupt of ideas like LIBERTY for ALL?

Why do Statists "feel good" using gov't power to enslave BOTH the Makers & Takers?

[yakyakyak69]

@mistara31415 Corporations are NOT gov't entities. That's just ignorant progressive-socialist propaganda. However, corps ARE treated seperately from their owners (stockholders) and pay sales (excise) tax in return for that seperation. (I see that you have NO clue about business)

There's no law of the land? I also see that you have no cule about the nature of law and therefore, WILLINGLY allow politicans to do whatever they want!

YOU and ignorant sheeple like you ARE THE PROBLEM!.

[yakyakyak69]

@mistara31415

The American Constitution is NOT 'just paper"! IT IS LAW!

There is a LEGAL PROCESS to change that LAW, but politicians IGNORE the Constitution or simple "interpret" it to ALWAYS give more power to the State & themselves. That is called TYRANNY!

The Bill of Rights exist so that We, the People who created gov't can fight the Tyranny of the Majority.

THAT is why we are a Representative Republic and NOT a Mobocracy!

You need to learn civics, but NOT from Gov't schools!

[yakyakyak69]

@mistara31415 If you don't understand the corporate veil privaledge given to companies in return for corporate excise taxes, then you don't understand that there is a HUGE difference between simply living in a country and being forced to work for that nation X # of weeks per year and being ALLOWED to "incorporate" to secure certain protections from gov't.

Companies receive protections & pay excise tax for those protections.

People are forced into slavery so their labor can be redistributed.

[yakyakyak69]

@mistara31415 Let's be clear that there is a HUGE distinction between taxe on income (slavery) and excise or excise tax which is commonly understood to refer to an inland tax on the sale, or production for sale, of specific goods; or, more narrowly, as a tax on a good produced for sale,

Taxes are required to run gov't, but Excise Taxe on companies are ALL that is needed when politicians honor their oath to defend the Constitutional limitations on Federal power!

Honor is SCARCE these days.

[yakyakyak69]

@mistara31415 Half-truths are the blackest of lies because they can be partially defended.

Truth 1) Interfering with the natural liberties of others when nobody is being harmed by their free exercise is EVIL.

Truth 2): Redistribution (individual or corporate), the EVIL child of Hubris & Envy is Pandora's Box, when opened it makes SLAVES of the taxed, DEPENDANTS of the recipients, TYRANTS of the powerful and CRONIES of the politicians all in the name of "helping" some by enslaving others.

[yakyakyak69]

@mistara31415 Too often the concepts of "good" and "evil" are subjective and as we ALL know...

Power Corrupts & Gov't is POWER!.

Evil wants the power of judgment. Evil wants to "help" others even when they don't want to be "helped" because evil feeds off that power and control. Evil thinks that it is good because it "helps" others even when it FORCES it's "help" upon others or steals from some to "help" or control others “for their own good”.

THAT is the FLAW of Hubris fed by Envy!