The fundamental difference between the libertarian and the statist, between the tyrant and the free man, is not whether everything has a cost and that choices have to be made … it’s about who gets to make the choice for whom.

The libertarian believes individuals, responsible for their own choices, make better choices for themselves and as a result of all the individual choices, and the need for an unfettered market to appeal to those choices, things are better for society as a whole.

The statist believes individuals cannot be trusted to make these decisions, so the nanny-state must make those choices on behalf of it’s subjects, regardless of their wishes.

Which philosophy seems more consistent with, “the land of the free”?