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STARVING VS. STUFFING THE BEAST. There is a school ? you might call it ?Leninist Libertarianism? a?

By Glenn Reynolds

STARVING VS. STUFFING THE BEAST. There is a school — you might call it “Leninist Libertarianism” after Lenin’s “the worse, the better” — that suggests the best thing to do is to give the big-spenders their head until they bring the whole system down in a financial collapse that will force the reorganization of government along smaller lines. My question is, how likely is it to work out that way? I imagine somebody was probably holding forth along those lines in a Weimar-Republic cafe somewhere . . . .

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on July 22, 2009 (boomark / email).