# Libertarian Mythology **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 26, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libertarian-mythology/583327 "2011-05-26T18:18:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 23
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libertarian-mythology/583327/23 "2011-05-26T23:26:05Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Wouldn’t all those bureaucrats at the patent office be out looking for private-sector jobs under a libertarian administration? Oh no. American liberty, whether the L is capitalized or not, is NOT the liberty of the common man to infringe on the property rights of the rich(\*). Police and regulatory power for that will only increase in their Utopia. If you’re looking for the money savings in libertarian government, that comes from removed support for the non-property rights of the common man: no money for public beaches, parks and forests; no welfare; relieving businesses of onerous employee safety standards; etc. (\* - One of them will chirp in to inform us that the property rights of the poor are also protected in Libertarianism 😃 Like Marie “Let them eat cake” Antoinette, that the poor lack property seems not to occur to them!) If you deduce from this train of thought that real-world Libertarianism is not so different from the Fascism of, say, Pinochet’s Chile, congratulations! You probably now understand Libertarianism better than these so-called “Libertarians” do. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libertarian-mythology/583327)._