Libertarians Vs. Asteroids

So, Sasha Volokh, a noted libertarian thinker, said, "I don’t speak for all libertarians, but I think there’s a good case to be made that taxing people to protect the Earth from an asteroid, while within Congress’s powers, is an illegitimate function of government from a moral perspective."

Yes, that's a direct, verbatim and in-context quote.

As one of the commenters on the original site said, "“Libertarianism is the haunting fear that somewhere, an able-bodied, affluent white man is being told ‘no’.”

Another commenter said (and here I paraphrase) that libertarianism and communism are:

1) Economic systems, not political ones
2) Systems that value theory over fact
3) Overemphasize one aspect of human life over another (libertarians emphasize the individual, communists the collective)

Or as John Donne said, "no man is an island entire of itself."