Libertarians want the government to leave business alone.

Things often get hairy for libertarians, though, when they enter into the real world — when you’re dealing with a circumstance created in part by government privilege, laissez-faire policy responses may just perpetuate the previously granted government privilege. But a direct government “corrective” often causes libertarians to shudder.

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