Libertarians are not liberal, they're the furthest Right you can go. They believe the govt has only one purpose, to protect the rights of the citizens. Spend no money on wars, foreign aid, or even domestic aid. Live and let live even if their lifestyle is abhorrent to the general public. They believe in mind your own business, but sometimes your business NEEDS to be investigated because you're a pedo or a rapist or a thief etc. And some people are incapable of making it on their own. They believe all the social programs are unconstitutional and would cut them out of the government. They would abolish the FED, the education department, department of agriculture, homeland security, health and human services, labor, VA, Environmental protection, Treasury, interior, personal management, small business, social security, national science foundation, agency for international development. A skeleton government.