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FAQ Statement History Glossary Platform Promotion Initiatives LTE/Articles LP Links Liberty links	When it comes to asking for donations or volunteers to work for the cause of liberty, Libertarians often ignore the very economics they seek to advance. The economics of liberty is based on the voluntary and uninhibited use and exchange of private property, including the labor, skill and intellect of the property we call ourselves. Markets for the free exchange of an ever expanding array of property spontaneously self organize as we act in our own self-interest to please others by specializing in a manner that utilizes our resources most efficiently in the quest produce property in excess of our needs to exchange for the property of others. We know it is the efficiency of specialization in a competitive marketplace that creates wealth, yet we ask for money and labor from everyone. Why ask retired, unemployed or marginally employed libertarians for money when they have impoverished themselves in the quest for liberty or who have been impoverished by government? Why admonish highly paid individuals to volunteer for booth duty, envelope stuffing, petition signatures or hold signs in a march? Why not ask the highly paid individuals to employ their poorer libertarian cousins to perform the labor of politics? Highly paid individuals are usually too busy earning their pay to devote time to the labor of politics. While they are high performers in their specialty, with the exception of salesmen, they are often poor performers when engaged in political activities. Their wealth enables them to tolerate the assaults on their freedom relatively painlessly, so they are less motivated to specialize in political activities than those who feel the heel of government on their throats. Marginally employed or self-employed libertarians labor just as diligently just to survive in a market where their labor, skill or intellect happen to be valued less than that of their wealthy libertarian cousins. Many impoverished libertarians would be happy to change their specially to those of political activists if they could earn as much or more laboring on behalf of their freedom and that of their wealthy cousins. If the Libertarian Party is not a 501c3 organization that can collect tax-deductible donations for charitable purposes, why not invent one that asks wealthy libertarians to sponsor a fraction of an activist?

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When it comes to asking for donations or volunteers to work for the cause of liberty, Libertarians often ignore the very economics they seek to advance. The economics of liberty is based on the voluntary and uninhibited use and exchange of private property, including the labor, skill and intellect of the property we call ourselves. Markets for the free exchange of an ever expanding array of property spontaneously self organize as we act in our own self-interest to please others by specializing in a manner that utilizes our resources most efficiently in the quest produce property in excess of our needs to exchange for the property of others.

We know it is the efficiency of specialization in a competitive marketplace that creates wealth, yet we ask for money and labor from everyone. Why ask retired, unemployed or marginally employed libertarians for money when they have impoverished themselves in the quest for liberty or who have been impoverished by government? Why admonish highly paid individuals to volunteer for booth duty, envelope stuffing, petition signatures or hold signs in a march? Why not ask the highly paid individuals to employ their poorer libertarian cousins to perform the labor of politics?

Highly paid individuals are usually too busy earning their pay to devote time to the labor of politics. While they are high performers in their specialty, with the exception of salesmen, they are often poor performers when engaged in political activities. Their wealth enables them to tolerate the assaults on their freedom relatively painlessly, so they are less motivated to specialize in political activities than those who feel the heel of government on their throats.

Marginally employed or self-employed libertarians labor just as diligently just to survive in a market where their labor, skill or intellect happen to be valued less than that of their wealthy libertarian cousins. Many impoverished libertarians would be happy to change their specially to those of political activists if they could earn as much or more laboring on behalf of their freedom and that of their wealthy cousins.

If the Libertarian Party is not a 501c3 organization that can collect tax-deductible donations for charitable purposes, why not invent one that asks wealthy libertarians to sponsor a fraction of an activist?