Libertarian Gives the ALL TIME GREATEST Answer to the Old 'Roads' Dilemma 

"b-b-but muh boycotts!!!" is their usual response, missing the fact that boycotts hardly work now let alone under their system where one guy eats the rest.

Did your beloved government stop the price gouging? No? Then what exactly is your point?

Mike Weber governments can put restrictions on monopolies

+I am Your Father Monopolies are impossible in a free market. They currently exist because of government intervention such as bailouts.

criticizes freedom by describing statism

Greatness.

well also need flying semi trucks too. but there is a problem. how would you transport the parts for the first flying vehicles in the first place.

Drunk 11 years olds driving flying cars? Oh come off it! There won't be drunk 11 year olds driving flying cars. There will be 11 year olds driving cars drugged out on meth. Come on, man, get real.

I'm not letting any of you fly in my air. I own that shit!

CARS? The market doesn't like cars! too many government incentives.

Yeah I just commented the same thing basically.

Life has a way of kicking us all in the nuts. It sucks. We push on regardless. It's what Mike would have wanted and what any of you would have wanted if you were the unlucky one who passed away in 2020 suddenly from some bull crap blood clot thing... Love that man! Rest in power!

The comedy is sorely missed, he was, unfortunately, irreplaceable.

You say taking advantage, but those people got stuff they needed in a time where the government nor anyone else would/could provide it. These libertarians are maniacs, but people only did that because of market incentive and it did help people.

They were 5 times more cost efficient than the government and got faster, sent them to hell.

@@ChannelRandomMy the reason that the government couldn't provide help is because they privatized the disaster relief effort. When Hurricane Irma (category 5) hit Cuba, they were able to recover quickly because of the government

@Joe Bob if you have no money where are you going and how are you getting there?

@Joe Bob Hey, Im born and raised in New Orleans. I was fortunate enough to have family and the means to evacuate, but many people still dont have access to vehicles or have enough money to even evacuate to another city let alone take a weekend off for Also, our city has been through a number of Hurricanes. Older people had experienced Hurricane Betsy and Andrew and were in the mindset of "Well, i lived through those then I'll be ok". The Bush administration and 'Brownie' response to Katrina was pretty abysmal, so much so that every presidency afterwards has made it a point for a natural disaster to become "their Katrina". This was due to the fact that much of the response was privatized and a lack of actually caring. See: Spike Lee's 4 hour documentary on this for a deeper perspective into how residence were impacted

Current government policy- You must pay to be alive.

@@MrJaaaaake no

@@TheEvolver311 Taxation of income is a taxation of life. You cannot live without an income.

@@MrJaaaaake no you can't live in a modern industrialized technocratic society without participating in funding such a society via taxation; you could and some people still do not live in such a way nomadic animal herders, hunter gatherers etc...but no you cannot live in a society that can in any way provide the infrastructure to facilitate a modern western style civilization without taxation to fund it.

@@MrJaaaaake "Current government policy- You must pay to be alive. " This is true unless you're disabled or too young to work. In an anarcho capitalist society child labor is okay and the disabled die because they can no longer afford to live. In the current system you have to pay in order to live in a society that's built in a way that it doesn't allow for child labor and death from disability, you seem to prefer the latter.

Libertarians are against patents and Monsanto, so your joke kinda falls apart there...

You being a Libertarian and against both of those things does not mean all Libertarians are. Libertarians main thing is pro business at any cost, so why would they be against patents which is a protection of a corporations assets? Monsanto is a greatly successful business, which is like a religion to Libertarians so it wouldn't make sense for them to be against it. Some may disagree with their business practices in some regards but I am sure most admire their success.

***** You seem grossly misinformed as to what libertarianism is. Libertarians do not blindly support big corporations. We are against most forms of intellectual property and corporate welfare. Monsanto became what it is today at the hand of specialized government regulations. Just because you have a biased viewpoint as to what libertarianism is does not make it true. Please become a little more informed on the topic.

Really, libertarians can't even seem to agree on what libertarianism is. Just look at Gary Johnson vs ..I am guessing here.. big eared air quote man?.. But regardless of what you believe, deregulating everything will have a particular set of results. What do you suppose a company will do if you remove all environmental protections? Corporations have been buying influence and writing laws in their favor for decades now. Libertarians believe government can't govern, I believe the free market will not regulate itself without harming everything in its path in the name of profits.

***** "so you ignore that you are FREE from others control in a FREE market and blame the problems of corporate fascism on freedom" I don’t ignore it, I deny it -- because it's a lie. No one is “free” absolutely as a result of a free market. Freedom is conditional, relative. We have freedoms - plural. Freedoms are rights and where do rights come from? They come from a social contract. Where do social contracts come from? A political process. What makes a political process possible? A government. What makes government possible? People who want and create it, such as our founders and those of us who continue to want and maintain it. Freedom is not merely ‘freedom from” (negative freedom) as you define it, but also “freedom to” (positive freedom). By your definition the homeless are free. Obviously, that isn’t the case. None of us are FREE from NECESSITY nor from the control or impact of others in a shared society. We are all interdependent and our actions impact each other. That FACT is why we have a political process. Positive rights, rights to, also give us freedoms. The citizen with rights (to healthcare, education, infrastructure, a relatively clean environment, etc.) is more free than those without these rights. As FDR said, the necessitous man is not free. As Jefferson said, "To secure these [inalienable] rights [to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed... “ “monsanto wouldnt have its power over individuals w/o government” First of all, there is no market without government so all these hypotheticals about a government-free markets are a wasteful indulgence. Anyone who suggests such a thing is profoundly ignorant of the facts of how the state and the modern market are, and always have been, intertwined. The hypotheticals should be ground in reality. We can ask how would Monsanto operate without certain government regulations. It isn’t difficult to extrapolate on that hypoethetical because we know how Monsanto and other businesses acted until restricted by regulation. But, actually, I agree with your statement in its naïve form because Monsanto wouldn’t EXIST without government and certainly the laws that give rights/power to Monsanto exist because of government. So in that sense you are right. And neither would your freedom and power/rights exist without government. But more to the point, government, because of the level of regulatory capture, cronyism and corporate control of much of the political and legislative process does result in a level of “power” for Monsanto and other big businesses. What is the source of this government capture? Is there something inherent in our government structure that makes this capture necessary or inevitable? But what you’re inferring is more the issue. This is the tired lie of libertarians that Monsanto couldn’t FORCE consumers to do anything without the power of the state behind it. Again, we can’t fantasize about a society without government but we can look at examples of weak states and “black markets”. Examples of weak states are many. They are easily overrun by private power. Look at the drug cartels in Colombia in the 80s and 90s. Is it government that FORCES black market businesses to use violence as a means to its ends? Don’t libertarians preach the laughable nonsense that without government initiation of force, businesses will all self regulate to the satisfaction of consumers and never aggress towards other businesses? Of course the government isn’t stopping them from doing so now but that is an inconvenient truth that doesn’t fit libertarian ideology so it must be ignored. PROPERTY IS CONTROL. And property rights are what libertarians are all about. That is your idea of freedom. To be free to exercise tyrannical/sovereign control over your property. But this begs the question, where does the concept of private property come from? It ONLY exists as a result of government. It is the monopoly power of government that determines the amount of CONTROL over property. But when that “property” happens to be the commodification of resources necessary for human survival and well being - long understood by human social organization to be collective property -- then there is a NATURAL conflict between property owners/appropriators and the system that enables it, and everyone else. Government exists to mitigate that conflict and govern resources. That’s there will always be government of some kind.

Oh no, I'm sure he used his jetpack.

That moron couldn't properly use a fanny pack ;)

Right? I’ve learned that age doesn’t signify intelligence.

Lowered expectations. ... . ... .

I spy a triggered asshole 😙

*than

They have been spoiled by a well-funded U.S. Government that protected their baby asses their entire lives, while they work to strip away the very thing that protects them.

... "Creepy" is right. I have a visceral reaction to them.... They strike me as "CREEPY". It must be the result of maintaining a steady level of arrogance, coupled with an unrelenting pretense of disconnection from the very world everybody IS connected to, and nourished by... and... it comes out to being "CREEPY".... just like weird monsters that lurk in the shadows that can't relate to human concerns, and have alternate uncommon appetites, which may include human flesh.... creepy... I can now see the connection.

"I'm so glad you brought it up..." LMAO...too funny. Busted a gut laughing. Just gold.

I miss Michael...

Gary Johnson is a fake libertarian: he thinks drivers licenses are reasonable

+Annabelle B nah they love it when the government ebslaves the people and gives money to the super rich

That`s one of the biggest problems with the GOP: They benefit when government does NOT work.. They have an incentive to make it as shitty as possible..

Yes let's put people into power who love government, since that's worked out so well in the past...

Zach Johnson Yeah, we should just keep giving trillions away to corporations, because they care soooo much about the people.

Not to mention they have no respect for you because you didn't cook it yourself. I'm sure they'll try real hard to make it good.

He was very obviously kidding. Duh.

I`ve heard Petersom before he was not kidding. He`s an ignorant libertarian who lives in a fantasy world that he and his ilk dream about. IDIOTS !!

No Mike, Peterson is a fuckhead. He wasn't kidding.

You can't spell dead, check mate.

Tim Ross took 2 years , but checkmate.🤷🏻‍♂️

They're so fucking stupid. So we all get these jetpacks, what now? Who regulates their construction standards? who regulates their flight? when we have hundreds of people dying everyday from collisions, who figures out the insurance? do we license these things? Was that guy just trolling libertarians? In fact were they all trolling? Surely none of them could have been serious. aaaaarrrrrgggghhhhh.

+Visfor Vegan It's not only serious, it's spreading.

the jetpacksons. the future is here. and it's virginal and basement-bound

I think libertarians are tired of explaining the same thing over and over again with the roads. So we have the jetpack joke.

TreefireX so you actually have a plan that is not as stupid? I've yet to hear one.

no because its voluntary

thats the point of Libertarianism. There is no need of cohercion because people will do it anyways and at a lower cost

@@valentinoferraro3168 It's not though, because you can't use the roads without paying, so you have to pay or your business goes under.

He's like a parody of a human being

American "libertarianism" is a doomsday cult. They are just as bad as religious fundamentalists.

@Alanphylaxis Profound...thank you.

private healthcare is expensive because of government intervention. Public healthcare is shit 99% of the time. I live in Canada and many people go to the United States when they need a major operation because if they wait here they will likely die. Having to wait 8 hours in a waiting room to receive a few stitches is bullshit. Would rather pay the $200.00.

@@MrJaaaaake if waiting a little longer without having to pay extra can deliver the same results as paying now and getting it a little quicker, then I'd happily take your place in the line. Also if you have a serious condition that if isn't fixed at that moment, then you're put in the front of the line. Also, Rand Paul had to go to Canada because he couldn't afford to have an operation done here, and he's one of the biggest proponents of our private healthcare system.

@@MrJaaaaake Ignorant Clown.

you already pay those fees through registration and tax fees

true but imagine taking a long drive or driving across the state. instead of paying taxes you will instead get 100s of bills from different companies and imagine the headache of deciding your route based on the free market prices of the thousandss of different toll roads

I think right now driving through the entire state of pennsylvania costs like 20 bucks taking the toll roads. Coming from a state without tolls, and where all the roads are shitty cavernous crags, in comparison it was a pretty smooth ride. Idk how car damage from terrible roads adds up in comparison to nice roads that don't drive up repair expenses.

Guillermo Lopez Jr. wtf are you talking about. lets cut that in half. 10 dollars a day to drive is $3650 a year. thats almost as much as i pay in taxes a year for everything. the army, the roads, schools, government, police, fire fighters. every single thing. you also pay that plus your taxes. wow. what a deal. and all roads but toll roads will damage your car. ive been driving for 13 years and my car has never been damaged by the roads. i bet thats true for the vast majority of people. what an asinine argument.

CCLL McC dude settle down. If you notice, there wasn't much conviction in my "argument" as it were - I literally said I don't know. I'll consider your response and go read about state road differences in funding before opining again.

There has to be overlap between those two groups

+Peter Let's not get carried away here. ....Hm, well, actually....

Plus the flat earth thing is much cooler. Giant ice wall that's so cool.

@@sarcofaygo6218 I legit know a libertarian that thinks the earth is flat and space is fake. If you're around him after he's had a few the stuff he comes up with makes Ancient Aliens seem like an Attenborough documentary.

props to him, he said he'd answer it in 30 seconds, and he did, i timed him

Axel Bergström Jesus fucking christ getting McAfee off my pc was a pain in the ass. I almost reformatted just to save myself time and effort.

And now? Found dead in a Spanish prison

That guy who paid young women in Belize to shit in his mouth

​@@arachnid1483 based

And his meth problem. Look at those teeth.

Just pretty much everything on his head and face.

@@OmegaWeaponX2 and in it

If only every other libertarian would take the same action as McAffee, it would be a better world.

lol...

LacusTheDestroyer except private companies build the roads

Hunter...on private property. Or they are private contractors building roads, using tax dollars

@@mynameisliberty1 didn't think that through did ya

LacusTheDestroyer ah yes, because the government does such a great job leaving potholes everywhere.

Libertarians are not Anarchists. They just want the absolute smallest amount of government interference as possible. The government would be for guidance and assistance when dealing with disputes.

I actually think it would get the US closer to very underdeveloped countries in Africa. The libertarian recipe is already being implemented there: no state investment in roads, militias running around, no functional environmental regulations. The more I understand this "libertarianism" it sounds to me like a crazy apology for underdevelopment and a linked tyranny of the local rich.

Same 😂.

Don't forget price gouging.

lmaoooo libertarians are a walking paradox

They're basically Drumpfs views falsely wrapped up as "Intellectualism". It's simple a seemly kinder or trying to be more nuanced version of the bombastic racist Southern Strategy. Still all hold same views

There are no views that Libertarians hold in common with Trump...Try again.

Xenophobia/Racism=Libertarians would repeal the CRA, & booed when Gary Johnson said he would've voted for it, check. Despise Regulation= Libertarians scream 'Free Market' with no government oversight ever, & believe Corporations amoral behavior isn't systemic (COUGH, Drumpf is in a suit he will LOSE over Cheating Others in a "Fake University Scam"!) check. Narcissistic lying sociopaths=Libertarians think They are always the "fittest" intellectually yet ignore economic, historical, Social Contract, and overtly proven Societal Facts, Check. Want more, or will You Simply just Reject them as all Drumpf supporters & Libertarians always will do? Oh, & Libertarian lead Icon Peter Thiel is also a Trump Delegate & donor www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/where-republicans-stand-on-donald-trump-a-cheat-sheet/481449/

+Bolgernow That wasn't my point but well done!

Almost all of trump's policies are completely opposite of libertarian policy. Trump's kill terrorist families policy, torture policy, wall policy (which would be so incredibly impossibly expensive that no taxpayer should ever support it), and all the rest of his ridiculous fascist shit is not libertarian. Libertarians don't want to deport 14 million people. They don't want to be on watch lists unable to exercise their rights because they're on some watchlist for something completely innocent. Frankly I think you're just looking looking at the radical part of the libertarian party, and ignoring any of the policies moderate libertarians support. Trump doesn't support a free market. Also why do you make those ridiculous blanket statements about liberarians thinking they're superior or the fittest? You're drawing huge conclusions from a small subset of the party. Also your comment is not legible. If you have any actual rhetoric in there I'd love to hear it. Jesus I'm debating people in the youtube comments. What am I doing.

Oh My God! That is so sad!

Hotel California was a cautionary tale about libertarianism

@@NightfallGemini that's racist

in fairness, at least he stuck with his word, he said his answer would take 30 seconds and he did just that

Really? We already have a sociopath in the White House.

mike dixie rect That's what people said about Trump.

Waste of time? This is some of the best comedy and curiosity exibition I have seen lately. They should give these guys a reality show incluiding "political debates" in every single episode.

Answer: Private roads exist you dimwit

@@mynameisliberty1 idk if you think you're making sense but please keep trying. Your ideology doesn't work.

No word of a jet pack yet.

whelp, that didn't work out

2022 nothing yet

Well fuck, no jetpacks then?

hat's always worked before, right? Oh, wait: it ever has and never will.

And yet…he was the better conservative candidate than Donald Trump

@@sawtooth808 that’s a LOOOOW bar.

The audience members are also lunatics.

P Cass No. Toll roads. Don’t use, don’t pay for it

@@rogerward801 Don't use oxygen? No fee. Wanna get to work? Pay up. It is a tax.

It works... for the oligarchs. For everyone else? Why would libertarians care about anyone else?

It's all about putting boots on the necks of the poor and unprivileged. All their "anti-government" shit's a smokescreen, they're manchildren who want to stuff the rest of America into a locker.

the fire department can be handled the same way ambulance service is handled…………………………………………………………...people call 911 because of a fire and privately owned fire departments would be dispatched to the house through the 911 switchboard

They're right wing Green equivalents. The only reason they matter is because they suck away votes from a Big Two candidate which, funny enough, is most likely Trump.

Out of all the guys on stage, I think Gary Johnson gave a pretty fair answer - and of course user fee = tax. I don't even think he's one of the loony libertarian guys, as much as he's a republican that wants a little less government, not purist libertarianism. Also, is someone like Gary for POTUS more scary than Trump or Hilary?

Guillermo Lopez Jr. Considering he brings fuck all to the table except Republicanism with weed and rebadged lexicon, he's way scarier than Hillary. Libertarians hate the poor, hate women and hate minorities.

***** Well, he always starts his pitches (as does Bill Weld, his running mate) with the statement that he's "socially liberal, fiscally conservative." Idk, he's probably a little crazy (not crazier than Trump, but that's not saying much) but I could see him as an off-to-the-side, anti-interventionist president. Idk if you like Joe Rogan, but he did a whole podcast with him, and you'll probably scoff at some parts, but I enjoyed it.

Anyone who has a meltdown like Darryl did when cornered about their bullshit isn't fit for Prez.

Sam Seder *is* the voice of Hugo the health inspector on Bob's burgers. He is a personal friend of H Jon Benjamin who has been a guest many times on his show. And tbf I think the person they are impersonating is Walter Block, the libertarian professor Sam has debated in the past. Look up those debates. They are just amazing content.

@@Shilgne1 lol I was joking. but Sam's Libertarian Debates are the light of my life and what keeps me going.

I think it comes from this arrogant attitude that politicians are responsible for running society, rather than people

Do you have any clue how much a road costs? What small business would be able to afford a fucking road to their business? Small businesses account for 50% of the employment in america. You complain that small businesses don't have the money to pay workers a minimum wage, and that paying a few dollars more an hour to employees would destroy small businesses - but you think a small business would have BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to be able to build roads? Nothing would destroy small businesses, and half of the employment of america quicker - then demanding that they build roads.

Justin Beagley Making a road costs a lot, so if you have multiple companies bidding for the job, you reduce cost, and the businesses that are successful at making a quality road, with low cost, are the ones that are in demand. You're right in that nothing happens until the small business man consents/can afford the deal to build the road. If no one can afford to pay for roads, the market deflates, and prices go down: This fundamental economic principle is really important to understand. Just something to consider. With government, there is no competition; there is inflation, rather than deflation. If they go over budget, no worries, what they charge to tax for roads increase because there is no competition which deflates the prices. This is ultimately how the government extorts people: They tell everyone to pay tax against their will (you go to jail for not paying tax). This means the budget for the government building roads ultimately becomes to make something just mediocre enough to keep people complacent, and just low enough to keep people complacent aout the taxes they pay, rather than meeting actual demand. This is ultimately how unethical behavior also leads to bad economics. When you take from many using force, the product you design for the many is always more expensive, and lower quality. It's also fundamentally unethical to take from people without consent. I'm not telling you to adapt this belief, I'm just suggesting to contemplate it a little more, and view government with a little more skepticism.

Adam Lans lol - so since small businesses won't be able to afford roads - the road makers will decrease their prices? Or road makers will do the intelligent thing, and look for billionaires who can afford their prices. Or, to lower the costs of making roads for small businesses, they'll hire illegal immigrants who are willing to work for 2 cents an hour. Or better yet - they'll do what capitalists have already done - when they stop paying workers a decent wage, and no one can afford their products - instead of cutting down their prices, they simply tell you to go get a loan from a bank so you can still afford their product. Also - none of what you just said deals with the OBVIOUS problem - roads will only be built to their establishment. if you honestly think that a bunch of private corporations could design and build roadways that are even HALF as efficient as our government did - you're delusional. oh wait... you think taxation is theft... you are delusional. Go look up Freud's 'social contract' - read the constitution - understand that you were born onto land that our government claimed, so no - you're not on your land, and yes you do owe our society, which is represented by our government, for living on this land we've provided for you. don't bother responding.

Why do you think government could be more efficient than competing businesses? Do you know how to make a 50" flat screen TV for $1,000? Do you think the government could? Or do you think that once businesses start competing, those things get solved? Does the government care if you sit in traffic? If we get rid of slavery, who will pick the cotton? The roads problem is not even a problem, and watching Sam laugh about it is like watching a child. Who will pay for the roads? The people that use the roads will. Will there be a market to have roads? Why do you think there wouldn't be?

Route6 Kid just like the potholes in NJ