The Libertarian Solution

A Practical Case, Not a Manifesto

The Libertarian Solution

A Path to Smaller Government

Nineteen chapters, nineteen real people, and one method — consolidate, then eliminate — for turning libertarian principle into policy that could actually pass.

The Libertarian Solution book cover — a blueprint diagram tracing Step 1, Step 2, and Endpoint

The Book

A road, not a button.

Most books about smaller government describe a philosophy. This one describes a plan. The Libertarian Solution takes nineteen live fights in American government — the war on drugs, housing costs, education, the minimum wage, policing, the Federal Reserve, immigration, abortion, and more — and gives each one a real person's name, the government's own case for what it does now, the data on why that case falls short, and a specific two-step path to a free-market endpoint: consolidate first, then eliminate.

Every chapter argues with the strongest version of the opposing case, concedes what the evidence actually shows, and states plainly what the proposal does not settle. It is not a book for people who already agree. It is a book that shows its work.

"A chapter that admits nothing is a pamphlet. Every chapter in this book concedes something real to the other side." — Introduction
"Consolidate, then eliminate. This is not a compromise with the state; it is the only form of the state that can be made smaller." — Introduction

What's Inside

Nineteen chapters, five parts, one shape repeated.

Each chapter follows the same seven beats: the human stakes, the conventional answer stated fairly, why it falls short, a solution precise enough to check, the evidence, the strongest counterargument answered, and what it doesn't settle.

PART I

The War the State Lost

  • The War on Drugs
  • Cannabis
PART II

The Things Everyone Needs

  • Housing
  • Education
  • Healthcare
  • Poverty and Welfare
  • The Minimum Wage and Jobs
PART III

Force and Its Limits

  • Unions
  • Crime and Policing
  • Guns
  • Surveillance and Big Tech
PART IV

The Institutions

  • Money and the Fed
  • Climate and the Environment
  • Intellectual Property
  • Foreign Policy and Defense
PART V

The Hardest Cases

  • Abortion
  • Immigration
  • Discrimination Law

Free Sample

Read the Introduction

The full opening chapter — the Prohibition story, the method, and the rules the author holds to in every chapter that follows. No signup required.

Read "What This Book Is" →
SS

About the Author

Scott Smithers

Scott Smithers is a writer with no institutional affiliation and no credential he'd ask you to take on faith. The Libertarian Solution began as an attempt to argue for a smaller government the way a lawyer argues a case — with sources, concessions, and an opponent given his best shot.

Get the Book

Available now.

Kindle Ebook
$8.99

Read on any Kindle device or app.

Buy on Amazon →
Paperback
$19.99

443 pages, 6×9, black & white.

Buy on Amazon →

Also coming to Google Play Books.