Are libertarians Aspies or extreme NTs?

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the only people we should be drug testing are our elected officials, breathalyzer on the floor of congress

all public record and open to FOIA of course

the stampede of retirements would be astounding

the way I feel about it; what someone does on their free time is their own business, what someone decides to put in their body is their own business as long as they're not hurting anybody else and what results of that is on them

the real substance abuse is all the high fructose corn syrup, GMOs, preservatives, factory farmed, pink slime, fast food

This whole discussion is pointless and asinine. IT DOES NOT MATTER IF PEOPLE ON DISABILITY USE DRUGS OR NOT.

The fact is, it's cheaper to maintain these people than to cut them off.

Most chronically homeless people have some sort of mental or physical disability with substance abuse as a comorbidity.

I'm sorry my evidence doesn't come from some a**hole's blog. I have to rely on actual research.

According to the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness:

I'm an unusual case. I call myself a socialist libertarian, which is an oxymoron in many people's eyes, but the way I see it, I simply support the idea of a government that helps provide some structure and social programs, without otherwise interfering with people's personal lives. I also believe that while social programs are a great thing to have, people should be able to opt out of them if they so choose.

I'm a strong believer in individualism and individual rights, but I have also come to rely on social programs to assist me in my day to day life. I collect disability cheques, I utilize publicly subsidized healthcare, I utilize a crown corporation postal service, and at one point I even participated in a government-funded program to further my education. Having come to rely on these things, it would be highly hypocritical of me to suggest that a government shouldn't provide these services in the first place.

Another thing I support is progressive taxation; taxing people based on what they can afford. Ideally, I'd like to see most of the tax burden placed on people who are so filthy stinking rich that they don't know what else to do with their money. Unfortunately, people who are that rich tend to flee for greener pastures when this happens, or put their money in foreign tax havens. The solution? Well-enforced, tough-as-nails tax evasion laws, with severe penalties for people who violate them. It's the one truly "anti-libertarian" thing I would support, but there's a very good reason for it. Like it or not, taxes pay for s**t, and if you can afford a yacht, you can afford to pay your taxes. That's just how it is.

OK, I guess I'm more of a socialist than a libertarian. But I mean, I support things like LGBT rights, drug law reform, and freedom of expression. I also stand against things like censorship, mass-surveillance, political correctness in both its left and right-wing forms, and idiotic nanny-state laws. I'd say I'm fairly libertarian in those regards.

You don't cut off their benefits, you cut off their substances and get them help to turn their life around. But most don't want to turn their life around because that takes work. I'd like to sit around all day too and get drunk off my ass and not have to worry about a damn thing while everything gets handed to me. That's BS! And don't think I haven't had any problems - I know what alcoholism is all about and I have had depression and I have had anxiety and still do. But I CHOOSE to better myself so I don't end up like my neighbor because alcoholism and substance abuse can happen to anyone (including me) and the way to end it is NOT to dole out the drugs and alcohol and expect the problem to take care of itself because that's just telling the people with the problem that's its OK to be a druggie and a loser because you'll never have anything worthwhile to give to society. You're just looking at how to get rid of the problem of homelessness instead of actually trying to help the people that have the problem lead more productive lives. I care about the people.

The only reason a person would think it doesn't matter that people on disability use drugs is if they themselves are also using drugs and are on disability.

Nope.....those school shooters weren't liberals!

Life sucks and drugs provide a way out for a lot of people. People on disability are no exception, in fact they're often on disability because they have to deal with all sorts of BS people who aren't on disability generally don't have to deal with. All drug prohibition does is destroy people's lives and keep organized crime in business. I say end drug prohibition, and end the stigmas associated with drug use.