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Where do you get the idea that libertarianism don't have many political beliefs?
A liberatrian can usually tell you that a particular government program is bad without looking at the merits of the particular program.
Take minimum wage. I personally don't know whether it's a good policy. There are theoretical market based arguments that it's a bad policy. On the other hand the published empirical evidence suggest that it's no bad policy. But then the data we have isn't that good. We don't have randomized control trials of mininum wage laws.
I don't have a solid belief on the minimum wage. I have thought about the issue and I believe that the evidence to decide just isn't there.
Do you think beliefs about the efficacy of minimum wage are necessary to promote or reject it?
No. There are many motives why someone might promote a policy even when he doesn't believe the policy is effective.
I would even find it plausible that most people promote or reject minimal wage laws based on a notion of fairness instead of effectiveness.
There are libertarians who believe that the state has no right to force a employer to pay a certain wage. On the other hand you have progressives who thinks it's unfair for an employeer to pay 3$ per hour to his employee and for that reason the state has to intervene.