“I’m basically a libertarian, and I’m a conservative on economic matters, and I’m a social liberal,” Koch told ABC News’ Barbara Walters during an interview for her special “The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2014″ that airs at 9 p.m. ET Sunday on ABC.
According to ABC, Koch supports gay marriage.
During the interview he also said, “What I want these candidates to do is to support a balanced budget. I’m very worried that if the budget is not balanced that inflation could occur and the economy of our country could suffer terribly.”
Note well: Although he claims to be a libertarian, the libertarian position on gay marriage is that government should stay out of the marriage business entirely, not expand it to to cover even more marriages.
And the libertarian position is not to have a balanced budget, but to shrink the budget and then shrink it more.
David Koch appears to have morphed into a libwap, where politically correct nonsense supersedes the foundation of the libertarian principle, the non-aggression principle.
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.-Thomas Sowell
David's not a consistent libertarian to be sure...but neither of course is Tom Sowell. If those "spending cuts" Tom talks about were to take place in the Military or "anti-terror" budgets just watch Tom howl. Indeed, I would almost bet that David is "better" than Sowell on U.S. intervention abroad or NSA snooping. Just saying.
ReplyDeleteSowell has never claimed to be a libertarian, so it is just terrible that David is worse than Sowell on any major topic.
DeleteI have to agree with Anonymous here, Sowell never has claim to be a libertarian nor an non-interventionist in foreign policy so its an unfair comparison. Its one of the reasons why most libertarian sites only repost his economic works and some of his social commentary. Koch claims to be libertarian and says it publicly which hurts the movement and distorts what real liberty is about.
Delete"Note well: Although he claims to be a libertarian, the libertarian position on gay marriage is that government should stay out of the marriage business entirely, not expand it to to cover even more marriages."
ReplyDeleteYes, but in the absence of any foreseeable chance of that happening, I don't think it's inappropriate to state:
1. I am for the complete abolition of state-sponsored marriage. Marriage is a contract between consenting adults and, if they so choose, the religious institution of their choice.
2. Given that the state is unlikely to grant #1, homosexuals should be treated as heterosexuals in the eyes of the so-called law.
Well yeah, except he didn't say that.
DeletePoint taken.
Delete“What I want these candidates to do is to support a balanced budget. I’m very worried that if the budget is not balanced that inflation could occur and the economy of our country could suffer terribly.”
DeleteAhem....David, maybe you've been too drunk to notice that what you're worried about has already happened.