After looking at the NSW senate preference ticket from the LDP, I realise I’ve been a little harsh on the LDP thinking it was completely useless. However, your mates have done Australians a good service by identifying every nutjob, crazy, backwards or downright stupid senate candidate and preferenced them accordingly. Happily, this makes senate voting easy in 2007 – just follow the LDP sheet backwards.

Thanks!

There’s no “principles” being violated here.

Just because we think taxes should be lowered doesn’t mean we break the law by not paying tax. We work within the current system, but intend to make changes to that system when elected.

Do Libertarians accept electoral funding form the taxpayer?

I honestly haven’t thought of that. In the short run the money would be good, but in the long run we would benefit more from the principled stand of refusing it. In practice it may not be a problem we have to face, since funding kicks in only on a 4%+ primary vote.

While I admire the fact that you can start a campaign for a seat from another another state, I am annoyed that you are prostituting the site to gain help for your own campaign.

I’ve been in Darwin since the second day of the campaign. I was born, raised and in large part educated here.

Do Libertarians accept electoral funding form the taxpayer?

See, that sounds like the first half of a bad joke.

“How many Libertarians does it take to accept public electoral funding?”

“Twenty, one to re-appropriate his stolen tax money, eighteen to complain bitterly about it on Catallaxy, one to solemnly clean his gun”

So I wont.

Not that I would have. Do Libertarians accept electoral funding form the taxpayer?

I don’t know whether he/she has had run-ins with Jacques in some other context, or whether he/she simply uncritically accepts the ALP propaganda that Jacques is a “Tollner stooge”. If it’s the latter, I think it’s a bum rap. Anyone who’s read Jacques’ posts here and elsewhere over the last several years will know that his libertarian principles are both sincere and longstanding (although I personally disagree with numerous aspects of them). It’s a logical step for someone with passionate libertarian principles to stand for the LDP. Good on him for doing so. At least it gives voters some small element of choice in a “me too” political era. After all, neither major party (and even less the Greens or Democrats) has policies that can properly be labelled as strongly libertarian; certainly not the Coalition under John Howard.

Does this mean that every candidate ALP, CLP, Greens or even the CEC can now beg on this site for help?

Please don’t discredit yourself or the intelligence of the readership by pleading for help in your quest for self promotion, please remove this request.