If we have roughly the same crime rate as we did in 1970, but have five times as many people in prison as we did then, what are those extra people in prison for?
"In a world in which all property was acquired by peaceful processes of labor-mixing and voluntary trade, a tax-funded Basic Income Guarantee might plausibly be held to violate libertarian rights. But our world is not that world."
"A new kind of political space [has developed]. ...They understand classical liberal or libertarian ideas often fairly well. These are not just ignorant people. They reject [our ideas]. They have grappled ... with our ideas and they reject them. They have resurrected forms of collectivist thought that we thought were buried in 1945."