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» They're Baaaaaccckkk ...   2003-04-23 20:59 Strawman

>> It seems to me that governments that inhibit the free movement of people are
>> distinctly not libertarian.

Quite true - but neither are the ones which take force their citizens to pay welfare to new arrivals who have never even paid tax in this country, and then pass laws which forbid people from taking steps to remove themselves from the situation.

Given that we have a social democracy, and are likely to be stuck with one for the foreseeable future, a protected-border social democracy is much superior to an open-border one. The choice is between

  1. putting up with other Australians voting themselves your money through the public trough; or
  2. putting up with the entire world voting themselves your money through the public trough.

    Surely no-brainer if ever there was one.