Ended peacefully because of slavers resisted giving up slaves they would have faced the armed might of the government - exactly the stuff you rail about.
If authoritarians had their way, they would confiscate 18% of society’s loot and build prisons and war machines.
That happened literally nowhere, but cool story.
You really think that any IRS employee can launch a vendetta against someone without fear of firing or worse?
Hell, if that were true we’d have Trump’s tax returns by now.
Individuals are limited in their oppression by the very government you hate.
That’s a peculiarly precise figure-where did you get it from?
It didn’t happen because the slavers knew the consequences.
If they wanted to oppress they’d become a statist. Much easier than wage an educational campaign to turn people into Libertarians.
Yes I’m waiting on your graphic novel for the details of this tale.
Really? So, when England banned slavery in 1833, why do you think none of the English people who owned slaves at the time said, “Fuck that, I’m keeping mine?”
IOW, I understood nothing of what you said.
History books too complicated for you?
So, no person drives the speed limit for fear of the cops, no person doesn’t commit a crime because they suspect armed police will catch them, no business operates ethically because the legal penalty for not doing so is too high?
You truly live in Lib-Lib Land.
No. People form political parties to oppress. Republicans form to oppress immigrants and drug users. Democrats form to oppress productive individuals and drug sellers.
Taxes have beboped around that figure since WWII.
Though his law says 19.5%.
Your claim was that the slaver’s gave up slavery under threat from govt arms. What are you going on about now?
I’ve heard the same tech-geek nonsense from all-knowing neckbeards for years.
Make your claim. That’s how this works.
And how much of that is used to build prisons and “war machines”?
“tech-geek nonsense”
“all-knowing neckbeards”
With debating like this, it’s no wonder the Libertarian Movement is growing by the millions every year. :rolleyes:
There is an awful lot of room between what we have and some kind of ideal pipedream libertarian society. The gulf between reality and almost any -ism is rather large.
Realistically I think government has gotten too large, that doesn’t mean it has to be completely torn down to nothing. It’s like trimming the bushes in your hard, they will get out of hand if you don’t trim them back every once in a while. We haven’t had a trimming in a long time 
Yes, let’s start with the basics.
Who, exactly, is going to make this happen?