In other words, "Screw the workers! We're the billionaires and we don't give a damn about workers!"
According to the 1980 platform, libertarians are also for the "complete separation of education and the state" and think that "government ownership, operation, regulation, and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended."
Who cares about Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia, or Abraham Lincoln's land-grant colleges?
Screw public education! Poor people don't need to know how to read! Only rich people should be going to college, and billionaires can pay for their own kids' education!
And when they're done attacking public education in America, libertarians want to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency.
After all, pollution can be so profitable. And who cares if a few million people get asthma or die of cancer? They're not rich people! Screw them.
A 2010 study found that between 2005 and 2007, around 30,000 hospital trips and emergency-room visits could have been avoided in California alone if federal clean-air standards had been met. Instead, those visits led to approximately $193 million worth of health care expenses for the American people.
Guess who benefited from that $193 million?
Similarly, the 1980 platform makes it clear that libertarians also want to get rid of the Department of Energy, and close down any government agency that's involved in transportation.
No more standards for our roads, no more standards for our railways, no more standards for our airlines. Turn it all over to the billionaires. They can run it all and make a buck while they're at it!
And libertarians want to privatize our public highways and turn them all into toll roads too.
So, if you want to drive to work you have to pay the Koch brothers!
Libertarians also want to do away with the Food and Drug Administration and the safety standards that agency imposes, so that Big Pharma and Big Ag can make even more money, while you and I are forced to deal with the consequences.
Billionaires don't have to worry if their food is safe. They can own their own farmland, and hire their own cheap labor to work it!
Along those same lines, the 1980 platform says that libertarians want to get rid of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
After all, if a kid is choking to death on some badly made cheapo toy, it's almost certain that it's a poor or working-class kid. One less moocher!
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