Hmm, sounds like me, a civil libertarian but not an economic one. Economic libertarianism is a bit nuts to me, esp in it's extremes.
Earmarks technically just appropriate funds already available in the budget, but how do you think they come up with the total budget in the first place? People lobby for spending before they officially come out with the budget, which influences the budget. In an ideal world, coming up with the budget and the earmark process would be two separate processes, but in the real world they are one and the same.
"True free market supporters should stop bickering over the way less than two percent of the budget is allocated and start focusing on scraping whole departments, gutting the military industrial complex, and privatizing entitlements."
This attitude by right libertarians amuses me, because privatizing government is exactly how we got such things as the military-industrial complex and the Federal Reserve, which is a privatized government function. The free market extremism advocated by the right wing of the libertarian spectrum is naive and completely contradictory to their disdain for the Fed and the military-industrial complex. The government should not be doing much to fund arts, but their is much in society that the free market should absolutely NOT be doing.
But I don't expect much in the way of pragmatism or consistent reasoning from the likes of racist paleoconservative curmudgeon Lew Rockwell.
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