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title: "Within some socially conservative libertarian circles, there is some…"
date: 2026-02-27
source: facebook
type: Archer T. Ships updated his status.
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# Within some socially conservative libertarian circles, there is some…

*February 27, 2026 · Facebook*

Within some socially conservative libertarian circles, there is some support for repealing the 19th amendment.\
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Someone asked if I was capable of steelmanning the position. To be clear, I don\'t support repealing the 19th. But here is the steelman I would make:\
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\* Historically, women have voted for higher spending on taxes, welfare, government schools. They also support \"nanny state\" regulations much more than men.\
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\* Women enjoy a disproportionate share of the benefits of government such as homeless shelters, WIC, Medicare/Medicaid, medical research funding, and Social Security. For example, women live 7 years longer than men, on average, so they collect Social Security for much longer than men.\
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\* Men pay for the lion\'s share of the taxes (\~70%).\
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\* Men pay most of the military costs (death and injury).\
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Since men pay most of the costs, and women enjoy most of the benefits, women are incentivized to vote for policies that benefit themselves at the expense of men.\
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By restricting the vote to men, decision making authority is more closely aligned with those who are paying the costs:\
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\* Men are less likely to vote for more government parasitism, since they know they will be bearing the costs.\
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\* Men will make better tradeoffs between risk-taking and safety.\
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\* Women will make better decisions in their personal lives (choose a good marriage partner, avoid STDs/unwanted pregnancy, raise children well) since they can\'t foist the costs of bad decisions onto taxpayers.\
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Do you think that\'s a fair summary of the \"libertarian\" anti-suffragist position? If not, what improvements would you make?