Quote Originally Posted by rebgirl420
Im all for a minimalistic democratic/republic society. I am for a capitalist society with a low flat tax and a few unalienable rights such as the right to bear arms and the right to free speech. I like Thomas Jefferson's governmental point of view myself. I suppose I would really enjoy a libertarian society. I am also against any society that has welfare or any other programs where people feel the need to assume that the government or anyone for that matter owes them ANYTHING really. No one owes you anything, you are not entitled to anything either except for a few things. It is not the governments responsibilty to be a nanny state.
Certain forms of welfare like long-term disability insurance are good programs, IMO. I think it's right to look after our own that were injured. I don't see it so much as the government oweing people anything, like you said, but more like a fund that working people donate to that they can later draw from if they need to. Of all the crap our tax money is spent on, that particular form of welfare is one of the better things. I think it's good risk-management from an individual's perspective. Would you want to stop paying your few bucks/month, but in exchange if you were ever hurt and couldn't work you'd essentially be out on the street? I'd rather just keep paying that few bucks/month. Studies have shown that people would be willing to pay up to 5% of their income to have disability insurance, but we only end up paying about 1% - Disability Risk and the Value of Disability Insurance

This might not have been the type of welfare you had in mind, just wanted to mention that not ALL welfare is bad.

As far as a libertarian gov't, if it means the ganj is legal, I'm all for it imp: