Providers always design their practices to those who make the decision to pay. The insurance company pays the provider and the employer pays the insurance company. #amliberty pic.twitter.com/v47MWZhgze
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) February 1, 2019
Among free people there will be those who will attempt to find solutions to problems. Many may fail, but the probability of success is greater with diverse and plentiful attempts. Through this process we learn, we grow and we solve societies challenges. #amliberty pic.twitter.com/3g0YkWQaKe
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) February 1, 2019
Healthcare and education have become more and more of a struggle as government takes your income to pay people to bid up prices instead of addressing the patchwork policy that has reduced access to options and alternatives over generations. #amliberty #libertarian pic.twitter.com/c2U7QQYfVS
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 31, 2019
Want everyone to have access to some good or service? You need to allow people to be free to create and consume diverse options and not tax/regulate them to death so they aren’t disincentivized to do so. Accessible alternatives will arise and new wealth will empower. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 31, 2019
The sexiest part of Libertarianism is having the autonomy to provide value for others through consensual exchanges in order to amass the resources to pursue your values, preferences and motivations without having those resources confiscated. #amliberty #socialismaintsexy pic.twitter.com/T3L5tjsf4q
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 31, 2019
The sexiest part Libertarianism is having the autonomy to provide value for others through consensual interactions in order to amass the resources to pursue your values, preferences and motivations without having those resources confiscated.#amliberty #socialismaintsexy
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 31, 2019
There is no silver bullet policy that will fix what we don’t do for ourselves and each other. Improve the health, knowledge, skills and relationships of yourself and others and you’ll find yourself living a more free life. Create freedom, don’t destroy it. #amliberty #libertarian
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 30, 2019
Emotional intelligence matters in making and being the change we want to see in the world. #amliberty #libertarian pic.twitter.com/QSFofyi4zr
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 30, 2019
The initiation of violence on anyone is an injustice. To initiate violence because you see people as involuntarily belonging to categories and classes you’ve judged is heinous. Collectivism is the disease, individualism is the cure. #NOH8 #libertarian #amliberty #loveislove
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 30, 2019
Choice is like a muscle, the more you use it the better it gets. The less choice people are allowed to have the worse that muscle develops. Choice, Consent, competition and cooperation matter. #Libertarian #Amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 29, 2019
The exceptional may always be exceptional but the great and the good can marginally have their dream, motivations and innovations stifled with every tax, regulationand license imposed. Restore opportunity. #libertarian #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 28, 2019
Libertarianism doesn’t imagine a world where everything is perfect but realizes a network of free people does two things. Allow people to maximize working together with better knowledge (prices) and allows their competition/conflicts to hold each other accountable. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 28, 2019
If your ideal requires massive amounts of control over the education, health and wealth of most people wielded by the ideal people elected by an electorate that by and large shares the same values across the board. You may also be interested in purchasing a Unicorn. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 28, 2019
I just published #Amliberty https://t.co/r80BUPdnQ9
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 27, 2019
1/2 People push some sides too far. If you think discrimination doesn’t effect people’s opportunities and quality of life you are in denial but if you think the trend isn’t getting better or that people can’t overcome you are also in denial. Culture is complicated. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 26, 2019
When the west became part of the USA people could travel freely between developed and undeveloped parts of the country. The country didn’t fall apart, prosperity grew and spread without any control of movement within these regions. #amliberty #libertarian
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 26, 2019
Would you like it if other nations told you who should be your leader even if you disliked your current one? Would that make you more hostile towards that nation? This is another reason intervention backfires. #amliberty #blowback #libertarian
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 26, 2019
Regime change doesn't make regimes better, just often creates more instability. We’ve learned this not only in the middle east but also Africa and Central America. Why should we learn this lesson again? #Amliberty #libertarian
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 25, 2019
Regulations just don't impose costs and prevent people from doing things busybodies don't like but it also makes individuals and institutions less nimble. Paperwork, inspections and approvals can add up and disable someone from reacting to the unforeseen quickly. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 25, 2019
Government intervention is like steroids, it’s a blunt quick way to achieve ends but healthy diet and exercise takes longer but also teaches sustainability which is more like voluntary market/community solutions. Means matter as much as ends. #amliberty #Libertarian
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 25, 2019
It's not always just the cost of economic interventions that make them so pernicous but also how they alter our decisions, motivations and the way we innovate away from the path that would drive the most value to the most people. #amliberty #libertarian
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 25, 2019
Freedom is beautiful because of the possible lessons we can learn, innovations we can create and connections we can make when we aren't held back by erosion of our autonomy or resources. #amliberty #libertarian
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 25, 2019
#Libertarians are the only ones who can end the polarization stifling America because we are the only ones who truly believe all individuals can #coexist without forcing someone else into submission. #amliberty pic.twitter.com/O5SoVswl0r
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 23, 2019
Some find it odd I'm so open about my life, emotions and insecurities being in National Political discourse. Openness is what we lack, it’s what creates the understanding that leads to tolerance then peace. I open up encourage others to do so. #amliberty #libertarian
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 23, 2019
I want leaders who understand justice is not a game of punishment by taxation, incarceration and regulation. I want leaders who understand justice as empowerment through education, encouragement, openness fostered by the power of choice. #amliberty pic.twitter.com/P6OJ8w170u
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 21, 2019
PSA: Maybe it’s time we stop trying so hard to find villains in everything. Regardless what side you are on any issue what I see is a vicious where’s Waldo game where there is no Waldo just misunderstanding and insecurity in our own understanding of the world.#Amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 21, 2019
As a libertarian I want each individual to work towards maximizing their individual value. In this case, each of us has to cooperate, compromise and consent to create value that will accumulate to a compromise we can continually adjust through individual actions. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 19, 2019
Individuals seek to maximize value which can be material, social, physical, intellectual, etc. We value things subjectively so we all value different things. People who want to control markets want to force others to maximize their subjective values. #Amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 19, 2019
Free market signals primarily through prices allow us to assemble the puzzle based on true scarcity and abundance In the economy leading to more sustainable puzzle solving than if those signals were manipulate pointing us in the wrong direction (intervention). #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 19, 2019
An economy is a like a puzzle we all are solving together by working, consuming and innovating. If we put the pieces in the right place the growth sticks, when we don't we have to take the mistakes apart and try again (recession). #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 19, 2019
If you say “That person is moving things forward or setting them back for a group of people or an idea” you are reinforcing the idea that we should judge individuals by the actions and thoughts of others. Don’t. #amliberty #individualist #libertarian
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 19, 2019
Regardless of your race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexuality, ideology, tastes, knowledge, skills or your opinion of Game of Thrones I want to empower you with liberty and encourage you to choose to love each other and achieve your dreams. #amliberty #libertarian
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 18, 2019
Put simply: To the extent disadvatages exist due to assumptions we have about each other, bestowing everyone the freedom to succeed allows everyone to break those assumptions through their individual efforts. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 18, 2019
Everyone has privileges and disadvantages. The question shouldn’t be how do we diminish our privileges but how to overcome disadvantages. Individual freedom allows to discover how to overcome and break the myth that anyone can’t and allow us to see each other as equal. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 18, 2019
In an episode of the Lucy Show, Lucy Joins the volunteer fire dept. and attempts to start a fire to justify more funding. There’s some lessons to take from this in regards to government budgets. #amliberty #privatizeeverything #marketsmatter
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 18, 2019
The Libertarian argument isn’t that authority and governance is bad or unnecessary, it isn’t. It is that centralized authority is dangerous and without the checks of choice, consent, alternatives, withdrawal and decentralization it can be disastrous. #amliberty pic.twitter.com/m1ZDnMAwLG
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 17, 2019
Imagine if we had government provided healthcare and higher education and then the government shut down, that would be devastating. The decentralization of Markets matters. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 17, 2019
The longer the government shutdown goes on, the stronger the case that no institution should house so many roles in society that can be turned off at the flip of switch or with the pinch of a tweet. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 17, 2019
Diminishing the privilege of a few is not the equivalent of empowering those who need opportunity and hope. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 17, 2019
Fear and resentment turn into hate. Hate turns into the desire to exclude and control. For freedom to thrive we need tolerance and comfort of each other’s individuality and worth. Our choices, our differences, are beautiful. #amliberty pic.twitter.com/arNiIBVAuE
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 17, 2019
Fear and resentment turn into hate. Hate turns into the desire to exclude and control. For freedom to thrive we need tolerance and comfort of each other’s individuality and worth. Our choices, our differences, are beautiful. #amliberty pic.twitter.com/uxv6mKXYMp
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 17, 2019
People often confuse the corruption of political capitalism with the beautiful ideal of free market capitalism. #Libertarian #Amliberty https://t.co/LUc3uxKqfO
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 16, 2019
I'm for free markets, voluntary markets, consensual markets, free exchange. I'm for free people interacting in the context of choice and consent. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 15, 2019
Political Capitalism: Where outcomes are based on the constant fight over levers of power to give oneself a higher return on their skills, assets and labor overiding the journey for consent and choice. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 15, 2019
Free Market Capitalism: Where outcomes are based on the interplay of consensual choices by all individuals. Success here is based on the ability create consent among and with as many as possible by creating value. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 15, 2019
Do me a favor and make sure to subscribe to my podcasts on iTunes/Stitcher/Google Play many new episodes to come and hundreds of past episodes to enjoy. Download the archive of my retired shows at https://t.co/UcWYxsbBFk #Amliberty #Libertarian pic.twitter.com/sPUZdGGu9Z
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 15, 2019
Strong communities disperse authority. If we want to rollback the demand for the centralized control that drives us apart we need to choose to be part of and empower our communities. Get out there, clean, feed, organize and end the forces that divide. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 15, 2019
Free Market Competition is actually the process by which Groups of people trying different methods of cooperation to provide others value discover the best ways to do so. #amliberty #libertarian
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 13, 2019
Libertarianism is not so much about government more than the individuals freedom to pursue their ends in hopes of creating a world with simple boundaries, robust reciprocity and endless possibility. #TheLibertarianHeart #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 12, 2019
High taxes mean less income, less dividends, less profits, less capital, less viable business models, more dreams deferred, more struggling families, more layoffs, more crime, more hunger. How about a 0% rate on all income individual or business. #libertarian #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 10, 2019
I don't care about your gender, I don’t care about your religion, I don't care if you hate me, I don't care who you love. I care about your individual liberty, because why should others arbitrarily destroy your dreams, motivations and hopes. #libertarian #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 10, 2019
Allegory of most peoples criticisms of #Libertarianism: I have a pest problem, you suggest to me to blow up my house to solve it and I say that is a bad solution. You then accuse me of not acknowledging the pest problem and being a horrible person. #Libertarian #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 8, 2019
Intrusive Government is the weapon those who hate social change, technological innovation, and individual motivation use to destroy it. #amliberty #Libertarian
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 7, 2019
If we want people to understand #Libertarian ideals we should at least show we are willing to understand them as well. Understanding doesn't mean you agree, it’s an act of respect and reciprocity. #amliberty pic.twitter.com/BfYelKW3Ou
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 5, 2019
People need to do less talking and more listening. It’s when we listen, Peace is found. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 4, 2019
As often as the bullied are bullied out of no fault of their own, there are often circumstances that led to the origin of the bully. True compassion is to eliminate the bullied and the bully and replace it with coexistence, not just to punish one to comfort the other. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 3, 2019
For people to influence others you have to be an example. I want a world where the interpersonal dialogue allows for more freedom so I work to model compassion, empathy, forgiveness, kindness and vulnerability in the realm of liberty. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 3, 2019
In a free world, many people may not help others but at least those who will, can. How many quality motivations and ideas are crushed under the weight of the burdens of centralization and control. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 3, 2019
Regardless of what you believe, we can all agree voluntarily going into our communities to solve problems is a good thing. Parent networking, food pantries, and other ideas are win/win for everyone so let’s all encourage more local community involvement. #Libertarian #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) January 2, 2019
