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Former Republican governor of New Mexico (1995–2003) and Libertarian presidential candidate in 2012 and 2016. He defends cutting spending and taxes, legalizing marijuana, a balanced budget, free trade, more open immigration and less military intervention.
Political axes
Gary Johnson leans further toward free market than 94% of the 617 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Control is where Gary Johnson stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Gary Johnson sits close to the catalog median.
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Original branch of liberalism that defends natural rights, property, free markets, and a minimal state, seeing individual freedom and the strict limitation of power as the foundations of a just society.
Synthesis of libertarianism and Georgism that combines free markets and individual freedoms with the taxation of land value, seen as a common resource, to fund the minimal state without punishing labor.
Philosophy that advocates maximum individual freedom and a state reduced to essential functions, valuing private property, free markets, and personal autonomy while rejecting state coercion over life.
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A small state in the northeastern United States, New Hampshire is known for its strong libertarian culture, low taxation, absence of a state income tax, and a motto that exalts liberty above all.
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A rare society without a central state, medieval Iceland was organized by local chieftains and an assembly, the Althing, settling disputes through laws and private agreements in a decentralized system close to anarchy.
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