Source: The Bleeding Heart Libertarian
by Matt Zwolinski
‘In a recent piece for The Unpopulist, I argued that being anti-state isn’t the same thing as being pro-liberty, and that libertarians should put more weight on the latter. Today I want to follow up by looking at one way anti-statism can go wrong: when the urge to cut government outpaces a plan for how to do it. Suppose you think the state should be much smaller than it is. It doesn’t follow that any cut is good, or that we should just start hacking away with a chainsaw at a stack of programs. The details matter — and they’ve rarely been thought through. Libertarians, classical liberals, and conservatives have all made the case for a smaller state. But what we still lack is a theory of how to shrink it.” (08/08/25)
https://bleedingheartlibertarian.substack.com/p/how-not-to-shrink-the-state