SCENE: Mitch BERG is in the lobby of the AMC Arden Hills, waiting to see “Godzilla Vs. Ayn Rand”. Stainding coincidentally in front of BERG are several members of the Minnesota 5th Congressional District LIbertarian Party; Stephanie Marie ANNAN, Community organizer,Garth MULLER, the Vice Chair for Ideological Purity, Carpal POX, the deputy chair,Victor VON SCLIEFFENBERG-MOLTKE, Vice Chair for Education, and Anarchy GOATEEMONGER, inreach director. The group is talking; BERG is reluctantly overhearing the conversation.
GOATEEMONGER: Today in class, my kid told the teacher “Taxation is theft!”.
(General hooting and backslapping ensues).
ANNAN: You are such a good dad!
MULLER: Next he’ll be telling them to Vote Harder!
(More backslapping).
GOATEEMONGER: Right! And you won’t believe this; the teacher asked him who was going to build the roads!
(Generalized guffawing ensues)
SCHLIEFFENGERG-MOLTKE: Hah! Roads!
BERG: So Mr. Goateemonger – what did your kid answer?
ANNAN: Here! Have some more government!~
(More hooting and back-slapping)
MULLER: Hey, look! Only government can wipe my butt!
(Broad har-di-harring)
BERG: Er…so did your kid answer?
POX: I read an article the other day that says fusion-powered hovercars are right around the corner. It’s going to be a non-issue any day now.
(Vigorous head-nodding ensues).
SCHLIEFFENGERG-MOLTKE (affecting a constipated sounding voice): Vote harder! Vote harder!
(The laughter is becoming brweathless)
BERG: So – did the kid ever…y’know…answer?
ANNAN: Roads!
(IMore guffawing follows)
BERG Nothing?
(And SCENE)
Funny you should mention this. There’s something like this playing out around Orlando these days. If you go down there, you’ll find toll roads run by no fewer than 4 different entities. Were it not for the fact that there’s a company that (over)charges you to have only one transponder to pay for all those different toll roads it would be a nightmare to travel about that area and there would be less economic activity.
Libertarianism is a nice ideal, but even Jefferson had to throw it away when he came to actually having to manage the nation.
Nerdbert, “were it not for the fact that” sorta undermines yer entire point. But you knew that.