Recent content by Michelangelo

https://notesonliberty.com/2017/01/02/nol-foreign-policy-results-preliminary/ And preliminary results are up. I still have a lot of data cleaning to do, so take it all with a grain of salt.

@Abortion/Marriage I will eventually aim to create a survey about cultural beliefs. At this point I am focusing on foreign policy so that I can experiment on my approach without asking you all to take a long survey. @Self-identified libertarians Yes, one of the troubles with working with...

I will post the results over at Notes On Liberty. Expect that in mid-January. I emphasize that this survey is very much a 'pilot' and I would discourage taking the results to be generalized to the libertarian population at large. The point of the above survey is to get an idea of what special...

I am a poli sci graduate student over in California. At the moment I'm working towards creating a 'libertarian public opinion' project. My goal is to better understand the policy preferences of self-identified libertarians and other like-minded individuals. While I think libertarian policy is...

Sigh. It is clear that most of you here prefer attacks on people instead of attacks on ideas. Very well, I shall leave if that is the case. I leave you with these words. It is one thing to desire a stateless society as soon as possible, and another to refuse to take marginal steps toward that...

Adding new states to the US is both feasible within our lifetimes and keeping with our tradition. Who said I'm pushing for more government? As I've said several times, American integration would likely decrease the size of government: *Free trade among the American countries. Trade is always...

I'm an ancap. Hence why I don't have any interest in hearing those arguments. If there was a button that one could push and abolish the state I would push it instantly. One can be an ancap and still prefer different sorts of states. It is not a betrayal of ancap principles to state that it is...

If American integration is done by allowing new states to join, no it wouldn't be thrown out. The bill of rights would remain as is. Elaborate on your argument. Would you prefer one layer of government? Would you prefer if state governments were abolished and only the feds existed? Or do...

As wages in China (PRC) increase it is becoming cheaper to use labor from Latin America, especially when transportation costs are accounted for. There is a difference between physical enlargement and enlarging the central government's power. The two are not correlated. For example, France is...

I am planning to write on the topic of American integration and figured it'd be good to hear from the other side. Does anyone here oppose greater integration between the American nations? And if so, why? Now let us clarify a few things. I am not asking to be told how NAFTA and other 'free'...

Sigh. If one were to bother looking into this study they'd notice a few things such as: (1) Most of the welfare consumed in illegal alien/mixed status households comes from child services such as education. These are benefits that would need to be granted to these children regardless. These...

Traffic, water 'shortages', and 'lack' of parking are caused by the lack of a pricing mechanism not migrants. The DMV is slow because it lacks a pricing mechanism and because it's run by the government. High real estate prices are caused more by zoning restrictions than they are caused by...

Obama has been confronted by Dreamers previously. No one was tackled, cut off, or shown the back door. During his first term Obama regularly told Dreamers who confronted him that it wasn't the appropriate time for immigration reform, but he's recently changed rhetoric. I'm very disappointed in...

http://www.undocumentedmillennials.com/#!Political-Preferences/c1ea5 Nah. There is a significant group of Dreamers who are angry with Democrats. They may vote for Democrats out of neccesity where only those two options are present, but it would be better to consider them voting AGAINST...

A recent survey of Dreamers found that roughly half were political independents. Similar numbers exist for second generation migrants. The Republicans have scared migrants away, but the migrants themselves have not been pushed into the Democratic voting machine. Big 'L' libertarians should be...