Basic Assumptions

It has been a very, very long time since I decided to rename this blog "Basic Assumptions." It has been an even longer time since I made any new posts. What I wanted to do when I did the renaming was talk about current political problems by deconstructing them to their cores and building up from there what the solutions might be. In full disclosure, I am a libertarian. So, for me, the most basic answer to most political problems is "let the free market handle it, get out of our business, and leave us alone!" I am, however, a soft libertarian. For me, that means not throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Instead of eliminating all entitlements because many of them are deeply inefficient and can hurt our economy, I say, let's talk about why we have those entitlements in the first place and what alternate solutions we can muster for those problems. My hope is that these will be solutions which appeal to common sense bipartisan Americans. This will, by the way, be specifically about American politics. While I have studied European parliamentary systems, I don't think it's really my business to recommend what they do with themselves. They can do whatever they want, though I hope they stop crashing everyone else's economies. Tomorrow, or whenever, I will begin with the most basic assumption of all, what is the purpose of government. I hope it will be interesting enough to read.