Welcome to the new Young Americans for Liberty! Learn about the new features or give us your feedback!

We could have a dragon.

Bonnie Kristian
May 1, 2009 at 10:51 PM
By Bonnie Kristian
An old post I apparently missed on the Mises Economics Blog:
My friend, not exactly a libertarian but not a socialist (pro-market, anti-war, anti-cop) — okay, pretty libertarian, actually — thinks that if the US government, for the last 40 years, had spent nothing on war or welfare or anything else, but retained the same tax schedules, it would have been able to fund the creation of a dragon. Yes, a dragon. As in a large flying nearly reptilian beast that breathes fire... For all this welfare-warfare spending, the feds could have made a dragon by now. The unseen cost of socialism and militarism in the American experience has been a dragon. With a dragon, no country would mess with us, because we have a dragon. We would again be the envy of the world.
Read the rest here.
Posted in:
  • Blog Policy
  • Login or register to post comments
Nathan, you didn't like Reign of Fire? haha
's picture
Submitted by Austin Brenneman (not verified) on May 3, 2009.
Good thing I'm a card-carrying dragonslayer. The government won't keep me down.
's picture
Submitted by Elliot (not verified) on May 2, 2009.
Unfortunately, standing dragons are prone to cause overseas adventures.
's picture
Submitted by Preston (not verified) on May 1, 2009.
Studies have shown that the presence of dragons has a strong correlation to the existence of atrocious movies staring Mathew McConiegh and Christian Bale.
's picture
Submitted by Nathan (not verified) on May 2, 2009.
Let's put it like this. I would rather have a totalitarian, statist government ruled by dragons than have to watch that film again.
's picture
Submitted by Nathan (not verified) on May 3, 2009.
Don't even bother creating a dragon. I would slay it on sight.
Elliot Engstrom's picture
Submitted by Elliot Engstrom on May 6, 2009.
Rawr. You mean government isn't the dragon? XD We could definitely at least have made Godzilla by now, or the Black Beast of Aaaaaaaarrrrrrgggghhh. Flying would have been a little tricky.
's picture
Submitted by Drew Chase Dorret (not verified) on May 4, 2009.