Libertarian Lexicon
From Libertarian Wiki
Why cede half the argument for liberty to the statists by reusing their statist euphemisms? Consider using these more precise terms and phrases below, or add your own:
Affirmative action => Affirmative racism
Affordable housing => Taxpayer subsidized housing
Anti-price gouging laws => Pro-shortage laws
Bill of Rights => Bill of Restrictions (on gov't)
Capitalism => Free market economics (what we want), Cronyism (what exists)
Competition => Choice
Conscription, Draft => Slavery, Involuntary servitude; Conscript => cannon fodder.
Driver's license (or Larry Ellison's new proposed national identity card) => Identity papers
Driving privileges => Right of free passage on public thoroughfare
Drug laws => The new prohibition (with just as much organised crime as the last time)
Elected leader => Elected politician, ruler
Environmentalist => Watermelon (Green on the outside, commie pink on the inside). Used only for people for who suppressing the free market is more important than actual environmental benefits.
Federal gov't => National gov't
Federal regulations => Federal dictates; Federal permission to pollute
Free education => Education funded by stolen money in the form of taxes
Freedom => [Absolutely meaningless unless defined, Freedom from what?]
Free market economics => Markets based on consumer choice; Markets by choice, voluntary cooperation
Greed => Industriousness; Desire to support one's family (good) or "politics" (when it is theft)
Law Enforcement Officer (LEO) => Legislation enforcement officer
Law => Dictate of Congress
Leaders (when referring to elected officials) => rulers
League of Women Voters => League of Democrat-Republican Women Voters
Liberal => Left-wing(er)
License => Permission slip
Mainstream media => Common media, infotainment, regulated media
Minimum wage => Mandated wage, prohibition of cooperation
Precautionary principle => Prohibition principle
Price controls => Political pricing
Public investment => Political spending
Public school (education) => Gov't school (schooling), state school, forced schooling
Private school => Free-market school; Voluntary school
Private sector => Free market
Public sector => Political market
Private property => Personal property
Public servant => Polit-bureaucrat, ruler
Public funds (financing) => Taxpayer dollars (financing)
Public housing => Gov't-landlord rentals
Renewable energy => Freeze in the dark; choke on smoke (from burning wood, shit, etc.)
Rent control => Politically priced rent
Smart growth => Politically tolerated growth
Social Security => Aged welfare; Elderly welfare
Sustainable Technology => No technology
Taxation => Theft
Third Party => Alternative Party (Not only do third parties not win, they don't even come in second.)
Toll => User fee
War on Drugs => War on Drug Users
