What I celebrate, pausingly, is the end of the career of a horrible human being, through and through, and if Obama et. al are so keen to tie their project to him, then I would like to see it die as he did.
I think this is pretty telling.
JD's political beliefs are usually pretty consistent. Everything flows from the single axiom of absolute individual rights (including property rights) that exist independently of human society. So you get positions that could normally be called "left" or "right".
But it's pretty obvious where his passions are. The strongest language and the most emotional outbursts are generally reserved for people who used the power of the state for left-liberal ideas of social and economic justice: spending money to aid the poor, elderly, sick, marginalized, etc. Those are the "horrible human beings".
Sure, he'll denounce corporate welfare, statist racism, and warfare if you prompt him. But compared to his tirades against the Kennedys of the world, it's perfunctory. When he makes exceptions, it's usually in one direction. Presumably the humanity of DC's residents entitle them to the natural right to vote, but it's not something he wants to see delivered. Ditto illegal immigrants, for whom deportation is apparently just a minor nuisance.
Contrast Kennedy's death, which JD's gleeful about, with Pinochet's. He didn't endorse the guy, but felt it was important to say that he was better than other, socialist rulers, and to muse about the counterfactual. "What if Allende had declared himself a dictator? Guess we'll never know..."
re: Taxachussets, seven time winner of the nation's Annual Worst Portmanteau Contest.
The state has a lower tax burden than the US average, as a percentage of per capita income. The main source of revenue is a flat income tax.
You can find the links for yourselves. I've decided to spend my time more productively, raising funds to sponsor week-long field trips to Earth for underprivileged libertarian children.