Reply To: Why not Johnson-Weld (Libertarian candidates for President)

The environmentalists are now complaining that it is ecologically incorrect to have large families since many child produce too much carbon. And environmentalists have “clout” (note that GMOs have been banned in many countries, and the ban is enforced by trade sanctions, forcing many third world countries to face starvation from using obsolete non-GMO crops). In the US, a minor change in the tax code (limiting tax credits for children to the first child) would seriously hurt us.

We can already see movement to penalize religious minorities that continue to reject the political correct movement towards same sex marriage, not to mention same-gender bathrooms. Do you really want to wait until the police close down mikvas for being single sex, or that yeshivos are no longer accept for compulsory education purposes for failing to oppose “homophobia”?

An overall policy to limit that power of the state is in our interests. And that brings one to the Libertarian approach. A side benefit is that most frum businesses are “small”, and the Democrats favor state-run operations, and the Trump Republicans are supportive of corporate welfare only for big businesses. A Libertarian approach would help frum business.