Is Liechtenstein a Libertarian Utopia? 

that doesn't matter they have a lax immigration policy

They're so Libertarian...you don't need to be a refugee to get in.

White immigrants only !!

they have probably the strictest immigration policy in the world

They only allow 56 YES FIFTY SIX work visas a year. So I wouldn't say it is very liberal.

and one of he richest

And?

Singapore is a single city.

@@nosouponhead that's bigger

John Wayne the people want him -citizen

Beats the hell of people storming the Bastille and removing your head.

They actually have been voted to have more power. The royalty is popular there. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u_CDBFMA598.html

they say if the country becomes a republic, the royal family would win elections for ten terms strait

+John Wayne The royals of Liechtenstein are not a ruling class nor are they like the crown of the UK.

SarChasm sounds like heaven for rich people. no fucking poor people to vote for socialism. The best country

Well the native population wasn't always rich, it used to be a poor country, but because they didn't implement socialism they are now rich so they find no need. Sure they have barriers up for lower income peoples like myself, but it seems to me that they are reeping the rewards of long term economic growth over short term government subsidies. I see no issue.

No Switzerland is has since got rid of the privacy in there banking and is no longer a tax haven whall the kept it way longer and are still a tax haven

Adam Collins sounds to me they keep poor people out

Jewish, according to the prince.

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good luck its around 52 people a year they let into live there ..

For naturalization, they put every candidate to a vote. A majority of people would have to agree to admit you and give you citizenship.

There's a 5% Muslim population in the country if that tells you anything.

@@WorgenGrrl thats incredibly big considering Liechtenstein's geographical position and history

@@WorgenGrrl but that's like 2000 people. on a small scale assimilation is more possible.

You have to be fluent in german and I think live there for like 10 years i believe

@@Ghruul thats like 10 people man.

Yes, do this with all countries. I want to play Pac-Man hehe

The great American dream 🤔

California has like 1000x the population of Liechtenstein so probably

The good thing is that it's small though, so you don't really have enough people to start radical communities. I.e. if you are a radical Muslim there, chances are that most of your friends are not. because you just can't easily find other people that share your specific interests. Unfortunately that goes both ways, so there are also no real interesting communities about other good topics... and most activities boil down to playing football and/or getting drunk.

Oy vey, muh tax haven.

@That Dude Any system can function given that a vast majority consent to the terms of the system. By definition the larger the population, the more difficult and exclusive that task becomes and you have to disenfranchise more and more people as it expands

That's a great thing with smaller countries: they can serve as political laboratories. When one system works very well, others will copy it. Look at the city-States of classical Greece, or those of the Italian Renaissance! Small countries, easy to keep cohesive, free to innovate, and pushed to compete against each others! Democracies, tyrannies, oligarchies, monarchies, republics, theocracies... flourishing political experiences which fed our modern conceptions!

@@princevesperal Or you know, what the states of the United States are supposed to be.

@@Commander034 Except they are not. Or only superficially. US states all have more or less the same regime. They can make different laws, but they all have about the same political system, and all the States even share the same two parties. On that account, Europe is a better example of political diversity.

@@princevesperal Please compare Nevada where Marijuana and prostitution is legal to its neighbor Utah, which is basically a Mormon theocracy, and tell me they are more or less the same. New Hampshire is slowly becoming Ancapistan while California is becoming China but gay. Texas meanwhile is totally independent of the Federal government and puts a great deal of effort into what Federal governments around the world do, ie energy and border patrol. The states are insanely different.

Rey Galaxee I love how this video picked a country with universal healthcare to praise as a libertarian utopia. Shameless. Libertarianism has, is, and always will be an absurd, privileged, and elitist philosophy.

Michael Girgis, Did you miss the part were Lichtenstein was poor, and then worked itself up to todays standart...??? With libertarian policies!!! They may not implement all hardline libertarian policies, but many, while other countries immediately start failing when the socialist revolution starts appropriating privat property.

Ox McGinnes The libertarian policies you fail to specify resulted in the creation of a tax haven. This requires significant government regulation to shelter assets from international regulators and creditors. Do you believe that this is libertarianism or that it resembles a free market? Or do you only seek to focus on the libertarian side of the equation in deregulating their domestic banking sector? Also, universal healthcare and “hardline libertarian policies” are mutually exclusive. There is no middle ground where you could rationally reconcile universal healthcare coverage with libertarianism. This is not a small concession you are making. P.S. I hear American libertarians mocking the social democratic policies of Nordic countries all of the time. They often rationalize their robust welfare state system as a product of their small population (i.e. “Of course Norway can afford free healthcare, there’s like only 3 people there. It could never work in a country the size of America”). While this line of reasoning is false, and is not indicative of how successful social democratic policies could be in America, does it not apply in Lichtenstein’s case? Can a country the size of America sustainably implement these “libertarian policies”, become a tax haven, and thrive? The argument put forward in this video actually weakens the libertarian ideology, it does not do any favours for American libertarians.

Michael Girgis how is libertarianism absurd, privileged, and elitist?

@@michaelgirgis9019 most rich people are democrats or left leaning. Most libertarian minded individuals come from lower middle class or middle class families. The libertarian mindset was birthed from a realization that high taxes make us poor and dependent. Bullshit dude, sorry you're full of shit.

indeed, large countries are a liability and lead to power hungry authoritarians and dictators.

@Kylem Not necessarily. A NATO sized initiative could help prevent that. Of course the funding would be better distributed

@Wesly Stanton No, it wouldn't. Why the hell would it need extreme amounts of power? I can't even think of a city in USA to compare to Lichtenstein, but that little size implies it would require little to protect it. If they are so easily crushed, then it's more than likely that they have very little that is valuable anyway. Also, I really have no idea what that last comparison is. There is virtually no country in the world that exists "all on its own". Maybe Madagascar, but even they don't live anything like cavemen. So that analogy doesn't even work.

All countries are dependent on other countries to maintain their level of wealth! It has little to do with size. Almost any country that would try to live in autarchy would be miserable. Just look at North Korea. Liechtenstein is rich because it enriches its trading partners with goods and services. Did you know that the principality in a world leader in the manufacturing of dentistry equipment, for example?

@Wesly Stanton No need to use such colorful language. I'm not saying that globalisation comes without risks; and of course, on a balance of interests, sometimes it will be preferable to limit free trade in order to preserve sovereignty. But in the big picture, the more trade partners an economic agent has, the better the trades can be, thus raising the standards of living in that country. Of course, autarchy is always a possibility, especially in a large county with abundant resources, but that would still mean sacrificing your current standards of living. Some countries are better than others to produce certains goods or services. The US is large, but where are it's coffee plantations? Coffee only grows in the tropics. Are Americans ready to live without coffee? If coffee raises your standard of living, then you require trade to import it. You're absolutely right that planet Earth can be considered one big autarchy. But that is directly reflected on our standards of living as well. Perhaps in five hundred years, people will look back at us with pity, thinking of just how poor Earthlings were before the solar system was colonized. The same way that most people were extremely poor in 1520. The United States used to be protectionist. It's economy boomed after it opened itself to trade. Again, I'm not saying that globalisation is wonderful in all its aspects, and you are right to point out that some elites are benefiting a lot more from it than the average Joe. But that is more of a domestic concern. Perhaps the best way to test the impact of international trade on your own life would be to experiment it for yourself. How about next month, you only buy goods and services produced in your home country. Nothing imported. See how much spending power you have when you are limited by those contraints. If you scorn "cheap stuff", you're basically telling the poorest people in your country that they should not be able to eat three meals a day, or have more than one or two sets of clothes.

baianoise lol my country is the same size of Indiana

Much, much smaller.

They're smaller than most of the suburbs of DC

@@maxhydekyle2425 Geez, they are minuscule then! According to Wikipedia they have an aerea of aprox. 160 km2 what makes then basically the size of Brooklyn in NYC! But Brooklyn has a population of roughly 2.5 million, Liechtenstein has a population of little less than 40 thousand ! Everybody there could fit in a townhouse block in Brooklyn !

@@freedom_aint_free Oh ya, my college has more people. They're a very odd country.

You’re forgetting the Vatican

God bless them! I would live there if I can

Others nation are Officially Catholic too (Vatican, Monaco or Andorre for exemple)

@@Pheluv I mean if somehow the Vatican falls as a catholic country them the world's ending lmao

Liechtenstein protects unborn babies from abortion 🙏🏻

There's quite a lot of industry here too tbh.

@@nowayjose668 Lichtenstein is so small that even with one relatively small productive compaty, they would be more industrializaed as a % than Germany.

Not an argument. Private industry is best at production. Money circulates. It doesn't magically vanish. It almost always funnels through the financial sector.

+Sleep Baby! The Prince of a country that has a population about the size of the suburb that I live in. lol

I never thought anyone who's not a 5 year old girl would say that they were excited about a prince. Much less on a video about fucken libertarianism.

He spoke to an absolute monarch!

@@matthewbartke4424 well,how many princes did you speak to?

@@matthewbartke4424 ...with the wealth of a nation

I suspect the fact that most Polish people are Roman Catholic doesn't hurt.

@@HotVoodooWitch Well the power of the Catholic Church has diminished massively in Ireland over the last 20-30 years, but Catholic Poles certainly have an easier time integrating than people from non-Catholic, non European countries.

@@HotVoodooWitch OF COURSE I SUPPORT THE POLES COMIN' HERE! THEY'RE DILUTING THE PROTESTANT POPULATION, KATHLEEN!"

@@roadhouse6999 there are no protestants in ireland kathleen!

And of the Somali migrants?

The healthcare insurance is not public though, everyone is just forced by law to get basic insurance from a handful of private insurance companies. Only insurance for children under 18 is really free (the state pays your insurance premiums).

+Qwerty Bastard Actually, that was covered in nineteenth-century England. What happened was that when fires spread, there was strict liability. What this means is that if your house was next door to me, and if a fire spread from my home to yours, you could sue me for property damage. That incentivized everyone to purchase fire insurance. Because insurance companies did want to pay out insurance money for fire damage, the insurance companies started private firefighting services. If you bought insurance from the company and then your house caught on fire, the insurance company would save money by putting out the fire rather have to pay for all the damage. The situation changed when legislators changed the law so that if a fire spread from my house to yours, I was not strictly liable. That reduced everyone's incentive for purchasing fire insurance. That's when fires spread everywhere and people falsely assumed the only solution was to "socialize" the institution of firefighting.

+Terry Chatterton Friedman was a pinko.

Oh cool the Libertarian movement is taking off in India.

+Robert Drake nice, race for the bottom, your movement is already small and you want it microscopic.

legendre007 Actually a lot of volunteer fire departments are independent. They will actually make deals, like insurance, with towns near them. The only thing they get from the government is a tax free status.

No,because the gold Standard must to be international if arent the currency its apreciate and the exportations decrease

They should privatize currency as america did from 1870 to 1913, which subsequently led to the greatest & fastest rate of growth in living standards. In not only american history, but human history. A gold standard though a central bank still has its own huge issues dealing with exchange rates, ious, interest rates, inflation, bad loans, etc. Let the market choose the best currency for world & domestic trade, especially under the current climate if the dollar monopoly. Don't wanna get invaded & have huge sanctions placed on us lol.

And probably one of the few good countries in Europe to live in!

And taxes are theft, I don’t see the problem

And guess what? That's a huge reason they're so successful comparatively. When the level of success is inversely proportional to your ideals, then your ideals are the problem.

@Gold yes, but they lobby all over Europe for higher taxes, so who's stealing ?

Liechtenstien is just a tax haven for people storing money inside the country but I believe that theres a large wealth tax in the small country

Shit, I guess hoppe was right. Private government is better than public government

Vatican City

It's funny because even the most prominent libertarians don't understand what libertarianism is.

The monarchy in the U.K still has political power, the Royal Army swears loyalty to the Queen, not the Parlament

@@matheuspinho4987 actually the Royal Navy and Royal air force swear to the Queen. The Army is just the British army and swears to parliament.

Is the place like England, or is it hardcore monarchy?

Yves Gomes it is a constitutional monarchy like the UK, but the princely family holds a lot more political power than the monarch in the UK. in fact, a few years ago the people of Liechtenstein voted in a referendum to give the Prince even more power.

Interesting! Thanks!

middle, think of vice president

Like the great Jim Thorpe, Olympic Champion said when introduced to the host head of state, the King of Norway, “Hiya, King!”

@Wesly Stanton yeah but the taxes to pay for that are still really low. I think income tax is at 1.2% or something and corporation tax is a flat rate of 12.5%.

For Europe their pretty good ngl

Are they super relaxed on firearm legislation (laws? Since they are a monarchy, not sure if it is technically “legislation”), or very strict?

@@dr.lyleevans6915 it's a semi-direct democracy as well in terms of gun laws it's basically california

@@MrRooibos123 Liechtenstein also has a... (gasp!) *wealth tax* ! But the Constitution also provides that any of the 11 communes can legally secede at any time. So if living in an even smaller country does not phase you, there's always the path of creating whatever version of your utopia you dream of in a newly independent slice of Liechtenstein. Good luck beating the princely family in popularity or influence during the referendum, though! The sovereign commands a great deal of affection and loyalty from the citizens.

Onaj moron koji je stvorio Liberland ne zna ni ko je Rothbard.

Captain Capitalism (Anarchist) Stvarno?

WorldNPolitics Da. Skoro sam gledao njegov intervju sa Jeff Berwickom.

Captain Capitalism (Anarchist) I sta je rekao?

WorldNPolitics​ Nisam odgledao ni cetvrtinu videa jer nisam mogao da podnesem njegov akcenat. 

You might want to read about monarchy in depth before claiming democracy is worse than monarchy

If he's a citizen of Liechtenstein, he should call him Your serene highness" or whatever, but as a foreigner it makes no difference. It's like calling Elton John or Paul McCartney "Sir" in the US and Canada when those titles have no meaning outside of the UK.

Some days ago I was biking in the forest near vaduz. Saw the prince of Liechtenstein there. And like half a year ago I saw him drink a coffee with his wife at a fast food place :)

@@Skateboardfreakist do you live in Liechtenstein? 😮 Were you born there?

It's just restrictive because you need to get a job in a small job market, BUT you also can't already live near the border in Switzerland or Austria.

+BambisMother You've nailed it.

+BambisMother Pick the cream of the crop.

+BambisMother Damn, okay, unpacking my bags. Guess I'll look at Argentina or Uruguay then.

Guys, the devil is in the detail, right? I just don't like half truths and I especially don't like them, if they are coming from the political spectrum I like to associate myself with. Socialists and all the other morons can lie and tell half truths as much as they want, but "my guys" should be honest and don't distort reality. "My guys" shouldn't need dishonest tactics, because their world view shouldn't fear reality (unlike socialists) .

+Robert Drake don't do it. maybe Argentina now, or Chile, or Peru, but definitely not Uruguay.

Swiss Franc is the official currency

Fine

+Raw Underground Music If you want to read immature comments Go to a young earth creationist posts Or any feminist channel

+Ruby Honey I don't care about that stuff. I do consider myself libertarian.

I definitely think that membership to a government should be voluntary, just like club membership!

They don't have to oblige

@@generalsalami8875 Thanks! Glad to hear!

1. LVt on business land 2. Split sales tax 10% on general goods, 1% on things like food, water, housing, medical,education. 3. Gross pollution tax on air, water, land. What it would pay for: 1. Boarders/immigration, would discriminate base on ideology. 2. Justice system. 3. National guard training mandatory for males (Just training) 4. Pay roll would be 5% and would be privatized. 5. Education voucher for 9-10 years. I think this would be better than Lichtenstein.

@Gold the tax would not apply to small businesses only on profits above a large threshold. Companies like Amazon still wouldn't pay taxes because they reinvest but neither would mom and pop shops because they wouldn't make enough

Yes, but that doesn't take away from the fact that they are one of the most libertarian nations on earth, both in terms of economic and political freedom. Nations are always in a spectrum, there is no 100% libertarian nation on earth just as there are no 100% conservative or social democrat nations on earth.

Minor exception. Overall libertarian

@Electro_blob 2 what woukd you prefer?

Looks like Hoppe was right about immigration after all

@@TheAlasarLP True.