I thought these folks were known as LOLbertarians. I laugh & cringe at the idea of trying to rationalize saying out loud, & believing, that the government should be as hands-off as possible with the market because it'll break things but then should be completely trusted to good things with health care & other social issues.
I personally do not know of a libertarian that trusts the government to do anything right. Anyone that thinks the government should have any hand outside of interstate trade and foreign relations is not a libertarian.
I agree. I've gone so far as to describe myself as a constitutional libertarian. I felt the need to clarify when the open boarders crowd started trying to discredit the idea of deregulation by insisting that securing the country against illegal entry was nothing short of federal overreach. I think it also helps separate me from what I think are called anarcho-libertariens who, in my opinion, are just communists in disguise tackling the "shred the constitution" premise from another angle.
I can see the want to distinguish by prefacing with constitutional but there's amendments to that have enshrined overreach. Income taxes being a glaring example. In the end though, they are all labels that people like to stick on others so they can easily package them up into an easy to handle thought. "I think this and I am this so if you don't think this then you must be that."
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