See, Atlas Shrugged was one of the reasons I WAS Randian Libertarian. I loved that book. In some ways, I still do; skipping the really big speeches, it's a great big 1930s rambling pulp adventure.

I didn't change until around 2000 or so; one can see my Taxation Is Theft posts back in the 1990s on Usenet. If you can still find the archives, anyway.