Libertarian Paradise

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

James H. Joyner Jr. calls the Netherlands a Libertarian Paradise:

I recently spent a few days in what a friend referred to as ‘the land of debauchery.’ Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands, is probably as famous for its openness toward prostitution and drug consumption than for wooden shoes, canals, or world class museums. Yet, strangely, it nonetheless seems to be a clean, functioning society.

While Holland has an exceedingly redistributionist economic policy, it is a libertarian’s paradise on the social front.

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