A LIBERTARIAN DREAM COME TRUE? What If They Had A Government Shutdown And Nobody Cared? “Mark Dayton’s shutdown of Minnesota’s state government is now in its third week, and so far I’ve seen no sign of it. I mean that literally: if I hadn’t read about the shutdown in the newspapers, I would have no reason to be aware of it.”

But there’s this objection: “If renewing liquor licenses isn’t a core function of government, what is?”