How do libertarian reformers reconcile their support of health-savings accounts with the libertarian non-aggression principle? They don’t. Refuse to pay your income taxes and the IRS will come after you with a vengeance with attachments, garnishments, liens, and criminal prosecution and incarceration. The program assumes the existence of the income tax and provides a way to lower people’s income-tax burden by letting them deduct money put into a savings account to pay for healthcare costs.īut the income tax itself is based on the initiation of force. This program too is based on force - the force of the income tax. Health-savings accountsĬonsider health-savings accounts, another favorite reform program of libertarians reformers (and conservatives). It’s become pretty much an irrelevant concept among them, one that they either ignore or treat with disdain. In fact, while libertarian reformers often pay lip service to the libertarian non-aggression principle, it has become pretty much a joke among libertarians who favor school vouchers and other reform measures. And the reason they don’t is because they don’t really care much about the libertarian non-aggression principle. So, then how do libertarians who favor school vouchers reconcile their support of this program with the libertarian non-aggression principle? There is nothing voluntary about paying taxes. If they refuse to do so, the state will forcibly take their property and money from them and even put them in jail. How is that taking accomplished? Through taxation, a process that involves the initiation of force.
The voucher program is based on using the state to take money from people in order to fund the education of certain children. It holds that it is illegitimate to initiate force against other people or to support the initiation of force against other people.Ī question naturally arises: Why do some libertarians favor welfare-warfare state reform measures, given that such reform measures involve the initiation of force against others? VouchersĬonsider the school voucher program, an old-time favorite of libertarian reformers (and conservatives). The core principle of libertarianism is the non-aggression principle.
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