Most libertarians would agree that it’s a messed-up state that:
Creates a massive crime problem in poor minority neighborhoods with a futile, vicious and every more far-reaching attempt to prevent commerce in popular, highly portable intoxicants that leaves absurd numbers of young men with felony records, making them marginally employable.
Fails to provide adequate policing for such neighborhoods.
Fails to provide effective education in such neighborhoods after installing itself as the educator of first resort.
Uses regulatory power to sharply curtail entry into lines of business from hair-care to ride provision, further limiting the employment options of people in such neighborhoods.
Has in the past actively fostered the oppression of said minority, up to and including spending state money and time in keeping its members in bondage.
To make up for all of the above, provides a nominal amount of tax-financed welfare for the afflicted.
But it’s a messed-up libertarianism that looks at that situation and says, “Man, first thing we gotta do is get rid of that welfare!”
-- Jim Henley, via Alas A Blog