Anti-approval opinion piece on Independent Institute blog, The Beacon

[Ted Stern]

http://blog.independent.org/2016/08/01/voting-reform-putting-lipstick-on-the-collective-pig-is-a-dumb-idea/

Seems pretty easy to refute ...

[Steve Cobb]

If you're going to comment directly on the article, please do it politely. As a fellow libertarian, and pretty aligned with him, I'll contact him directly.

[Toby Pereira]

It's a pretty poor article though. He doesn't engage with the subject matter at all. He's basically saying that all reform (including voting) is useless unless it involves making the government smaller and making everything about money and contracts. He doesn't argue for any of this though.

[Warren D Smith]

http://rangevoting.org/ForLibs.html
is perhaps of some use


On 8/3/16, 'Toby Pereira' via The Center for Election Science

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[Toby Pereira]

Interestingly, shortly after this discussion and completely unconnected, someone pointed me in the direction of this video about libertarianism - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR-F0O6Pyt8

[Steve Cobb]

The "What about the roads?" question is a good way to make libertarians laugh. I prefer Ronald Coase's response to "What about the lighthouses?"

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/05/09/152197483/nobel-laureate-ive-been-wrong-so-often-i-dont-find-it-extraordinary-at-all