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Asking because I don’t know.

I was a conservative republican who realized my world view and personal morality shouldn't have any say in how others live their lives. I realized government was the enemy, not others with differing views. I figured Libertarians were disaffected Republicans. First Libertarian meeting I went to, I was gobsmacked to find a bunch of former liberal democrats.
So, how did you come to be Libertarian?

There has been a lot of discussions lately about income tax codes in my city. There is a charter amendment on the upcoming ballot to return a .5% tax credit to the citizens that live in the city but work and pay income taxes outside of it. The administration claims that if this amendment passes that those funds would no longer go to the roads fund (muh roads) as the tax credit was taken away specifically for roads.

Upon hearing this I did some research to see if this claim was true bc what kind of Libertarian would I be if I blindly trusted the State. In my research, not only did I find that this simply is not true, I found that they made a massive error in changing ordinances back in 2018. Effectively, when they changed the tax code, they “inadvertently” changed the percentage of the tax credit from .5% back to 1%. However they have been collecting taxes as if there was only a .5% credit for the past 5 years.

I put quotes around inadvertently, because it seems in 2022 they realized this error. They didn’t state it specifically, but they mentioned they reviewed the tax code after another mistake they had made several months prior that I had pointed out to them when they tried to steal another .5% tax credit to pay for a police station.

I’m currently waiting to hear back the opinion of two different attorneys. Once of which is a libertarian themselves. This could get interesting.

UPDATE: upon further research, there is a statute of limitations on this, so citizens can only hope to recoup 1 years worth of stolen taxes, instead of the 5 they may have endured.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/09/26/politics/trump-organization-business-fraud/index.html

I’m no fan of Trump, but I don’t think I have ever seen a city/state quite abuse their power for a political agenda.

Is it immoral to not like, or even dislike the country or culture one was born and raised in?

I think nobody has to love/like the country they were born raised in because none chooses the country where they are born and raised. Though, I always come into, bump into an argument like this which kind of implies that a person is kind of "indebted" to the country/state one was born and raised in:

"One has to like, or at least serve the country one was born in and not leave the country one was born and raised in in the future to move to another country because even though none chooses the country they are born and raised in, at the end, the country one is born and raised in contributes to the development, protection, nourishment of the individual at least to some degree through opening, operating school,(or providing the appropriate environment,conditions for the firms, private organizations to establish those schools), or by providing social security, economicly helping citizens etc.

So, even though none chooses the country they are born and raised in, people are kind of indebted to the country they are born and raised in because the state/country at least to some degree contributes to the development, betterment of the individuals, citizens who are born and raised in the country through direct or indirect means.

How is this argument? Does one have to admire, like, or at least should be held indebted to the country one was born and raised in?