NW-You would feel most at home in the Northwest region. You advocate a large degree of economic and personal freedom. Your neighbors include folks like Ayn Rand, Jesse Ventura, Milton Friedman, and Drew Carey, and may refer to themselves as "classical liberals," "libertarians," "market liberals," "old whigs," "objectivists," "propertarians," "agorists," or "anarcho-capitalist."
Thats where I usually end up on these things, but while answering the questions I didn't get the sense I was headed there. Neat litle poll.
A couple quick comments:
Social programs - I'm OK with public adminsitration and collective goals, but private delivery & choice should be keys
Taxation - a necessary evil to pay for the choices we make as a society, but the goals should be to collect the funds with as little damage as possible, not to use the tax system as a social driver.
Government funding - should be 0 or virtually 0 for sciences, arts etc. Thats what markets are for.
To Lanny's note on super-projects. I had a chance to speak with one of Canada's astopnaughts once a couple years ago, and he suggested a mission to mars is doable now, without any scientific advancements at all. He figured it could be done iside 5 years. The stumbling block was of course cost, but also human cost.
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