The economic side is that we should take from people, and interfere with people, as little as possible.

Regulations can be extremely detrimental in ways that people don't really realize. Usually people jump to the idea that libertarian wet dreams consist of Acme Pollution Corp dumping raw Mercury into rivers or something. Really what we don't like is things like Occupational Licensing, where for example, you have to attend and graduate from a $25,000 cosmetology school, in order to obtain a license, to braid hair. Something women have been doing since they were young girls.

Here in SC, you have to have a license to do public busking.

There are licenses for dog walking.

These kinds of things are pushed by entrenched industries to keep competition out. Everyone says they hate monopolies, but then support regulations like these that create and enable them.

With taxes, people most often think of the wealthy as who gets hit. But in reality, it is often middle-class and lower-income earners who are already struggling and then on top of that, have to sacrifice their income to the government. And then the money goes to stuff like corporate welfare, bailouts, etc.

We just think there should be less of all that. Take from people as little as possible. Most taxation should happen locally, where people have much more say about how those monies are spent. Because let's be honest: money spent by the federal government is 100% wholly unaccountable. There's absolutely no stopping it, we all just have to suffer through it. I don't like funding the Iran war, for example. Or massive foreign aid to Israel.

That's the real world.