Which of the following sets of policies appears to be most influenced by a libertarian ideology?
a. increase income taxes on the wealthy to raise revenue for social security benefits.
b. legalized the commercial sale of marijuana and reduce government spending on prisons.
c. eliminate the estate tax and promote government-funded prekindergarten education.
d. expand the welfare state and reduce spending on national defense.

b) legalized the commercial sale of marijuana and reduce government spending on prisons.

Explanation:

Libertarianism is a political philosophy which values freedom as the main principle. Through history, it's main proponents were Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, etc.

Libertarians believe in the minimal state, or in other words that the state should not be involved into decision making process. It's whole purpose should be to ensure the freedom for people to make up their own decisions. In economy they believe in the laissez-faire free market capitalism. According to this, the sale of marijuana or other illegal substances should allowed. Also, government spending should be minimized, so can the private enterprises thrive freely. This includes spending on prisons, education and health - which are in the big part funded by the government.

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every society, in order to meet the needs of it's people, has to answer three basic questions:

- what should we produce?

- how should we produce it?

- for whom should we produce it?

this questions must be answered in order to, option b, aid in production decisions.

every country can't produce everything, no matter how rich their land is. it may be a matter of technology, resources or geographical conditions. so, these three questions must be resolved in order to get the most of the production of each land.

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