Keegan Loyst 🇨🇦

A government is a gang that steals with such regularity that we’ve not only come to expect it — but accept it and say ‘thank you.’ It taxes more than our money. It taxes our soul.

‘Retaliatory’ taxes on imports (read: tariffs) are just as stupid as ‘retaliatory’ taxes on incomes. Ottawa doesn’t need Washington or Beijing to agree to stop forcing Canadians to pay more. We should cut the tariffs, abolish the quotas and free the trade we can.

I’ll stand with anyone who’s against war but it’s hard to think of a less human reason than ‘it’s… it’s… violating international law!’

the gold standard wasn't abandoned because it failed it was abandoned because it constrained government spending fiat currency enables unlimited deficit financing and monetary expansion this is a method for politicians, not a bug

“Responsibility, to be effective, must be individual responsibility. As everybody’s property in effect is nobody’s property, so everybody’s responsibility is nobody’s responsibility.” — Friedrich Hayek

@PierrePoilievre Sure, ‘take taxes off groceries,’ but don’t stop there. Take taxes off incomes and investments and imports and sales — and everything else. Put down the scalpel, pick up the chainsaw, cut hundreds of billions of dollars and let hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats get real jobs.

@PierrePoilievre Conservatives want one permit. Libertarians want no permit. If you need to ask beg permission or pay tribute, or both, it’s not your property.

One permit. One review. To get government out of the way, and shovels in the ground.

Canadians now carry more debt than what our entire country's economy generates in a year. Half live paycheque to paycheque. 1 in 4 face food insecurity. There were 2.2 million visits to food banks in a single month. Life is getting more expensive and Canadians can't keep up. We need to take taxes off groceries and get government out of the way of economic growth, so hard work pays off with strong paycheques that buy more.

@YourAnonCentral Everyone has the right to live their own lives, on their own terms, unless and until they violate the life, liberty or property of anyone else — whatever ‘the law’ says.

Human rights and international law apply to everyone despite ideology.

@ProfeserAnthrax @LibertarianCDN I think the aim would be to immediately (and I mean immediately) cut the budget to the extent necessary to cancel the deficit and at least stop the bleeding. We would have to cut even more to begin treating the underlying disease — but step one is not making it worse.

@KMLOnt @LibertarianCDN The voluntary part I don’t agree with but we can leave that for another day lol But you would have to keep taxes in place just to deal with the existing deficit no?

@ProfeserAnthrax @LibertarianCDN … the legitimacy of the debt in the first place. I say we let the politicians who took it out pay it down and repudiate the rest. They have no moral right to assign their debt to us.

@ProfeserAnthrax @LibertarianCDN I couldn’t agree more. We would say that if a service is truly good and necessary — defence, for example — it could and would be funded voluntarily. Our platform calls for re-negotiating and reducing the debt as far as possible but I (and some others) go further and question…

@ProfeserAnthrax @LibertarianCDN The deficit isn’t much of a challenge when you’re not married to the welfare state and the spending it necessitates. Socialized medicine, for example, which ‘conservatives’ swear to preserve and protect. Cut taxes — and cut spending even more.

@KMLOnt @LibertarianCDN What’s the libertarian approach to lowering the deficit?

@nemo_gratis The gilded age was because taxes were low, not because tariffs are good. Any theft, any taxation, is destructive. If you want to pay more for domestic goods, that’s cool, but you have no right to force anyone (or everyone) else to follow suit.

@KMLOnt Wrong.. Taxes or Tariffs? Income tax started a little over 100yrs ago, the world ran on Tariffs. What you're whining about is a globalist mindset. We don't need to have trillions in trade, we need to have local people take care of each other. FUCK GOVT. FK corps

No government has a *right* to exist, actually

The old slaves were killed for reading. The new slaves won't read to stay alive.

@Gilles_Borghese By all means, kill terrorists, but you can’t kill their families and neighbours (and other innocents) without becoming a murderer and a terrorist yourself.

@KMLOnt Sigh..Hamas exist upon a covenant to exterminate the Jews. Iran declared war upon the West in 1979. Look what appeasement to these has accomplished.

@Gilles_Borghese … Canada and neither me nor my family are responsible for any wrong or aggression Canada may do to you. To hold us responsible anyway is to act immorally, aggressively and criminally.

@Gilles_Borghese It’s neither necessary nor defensive to kill innocent people. I’m not a pacifist but, as a libertarian, I don’t make sweeping exceptions to non-aggression. The alternative view, with respect, is to reduce people to collective pawns and proxies of their rulers. I’m not…