Rhetorical Questions to "Libertarians," RE:Bill Gates

Some people say there should be no government. If that were the case, it goes without saying there'd also be no need for progressive taxation. We wouldn't want to "rob" the super rich, now would we? Let THEM rob the world's resources, through violence and extortion carried out both by governmental military and corporate police forces. Through massive environmental criminality. Let Bill Gates accrue a $100 billion fortune - he obviously "needs" it, right? An individual obviously "needs" a billion dollars while at least a billion people go hungry tonight, is that it? Above all, the filthy rich must not be inconvenienced.
That's Laissez Faire Libertarianism for you; truly "compassionate".

I deny the moral equivalency of a man who, while billions go hungry every day, many actually STARVING, has a 52-car garage in his 45,000 square foot Uebermansion on Mercer Island Washington. Protected by PRIVATE security up the wazoo and motion detectors as well. How many Haitians, newly homeless from the Janaury earthquake, and many homeless before, might he feed if Bill Gates really wanted to?

So I'll just ask you - do you feel there should be ANY limit whatsoever to the process of self-enrichment and self aggrandizement that Bill Gates and Warren Buffet and George Soros engage in every single day? Or are you one of those Ron Paul lovers who wants to do away with the Federal income tax for EVERYONE, making no distinction between the couple hundred billionaires among us and the 50,000 a year librarian?

Because what you people propose is virtually impossible in 2010 America. You would need to:
1. Boycott the public library
2. Keep your kids out of public school (if you have kids - I have none)
3. Never use the Post Office
4. Never drive or bicycle on the public street or highway.
5. Never flush the toilet if it's connected to the Public Sewage system.
7. Never walk on an urban sidewalk, unless in a private, gated community.
8. Refuse all emergency services, including EMT and Fire Fighters.

Are you beginning to see what I'm driving at? As an ideal, I can see why you might want to believe you are truly an "Island", a Man or Woman unto yourself. But in the Real World, in practice, I think you know better. The ultimate conclusion to your Ayn Randian, "Objectivist","Selfishness is a virtue" creed would be to kick the children out of the house by the age of three. Those freeloaders! Put the elderly out on the ice, the useless, burdensome old trolls!
So-called Primitive Cultures were right when they regarded selfishness as a major drawback, not a virtue. They understood that survival is a collective goal which transcends individual self-interest. It's modern, "Western", and above all American society that has glorified the maxim: "Greed is good."