> Government has managed not to tax into existence any significant black market in alcohol - nor, except for a few liberal east coast cities, in tobacco.
In the past, yeah maybe but things are changing quickly. Things are not the way they used to be.
Obama is being cynical. If “traditional” conservatives hate it, he loves it, just out of spite. He is not trying to be any kind of systematic or principled libertarian here. Libertarians should fear greeks even when they seem to bear gifts.