tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post5904010221176268105..comments2024-02-13T02:39:22.756-05:00Comments on EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Is Inequality Caused by Capitalism or Statism? Robert Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-84146435383674843472014-06-15T11:11:12.105-04:002014-06-15T11:11:12.105-04:00What is Step 2?What is Step 2?John Howardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-86757438841949778562014-06-14T16:47:12.667-04:002014-06-14T16:47:12.667-04:00Mike, that does not answer my question. Assume th...Mike, that does not answer my question. Assume they have educated themselves and they all agree with you. Then what should they do?John Howardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-56642177054580775052014-06-14T12:23:47.270-04:002014-06-14T12:23:47.270-04:00"I think Mr. Browne needs to educate himself ..."I think Mr. Browne needs to educate himself about this portion of American History."<br /><br />Yup. Like most people (as I was telling John Howard here) this is the type of complete ignorance and stupidity I'm talking about. How the hell can any changes ever occur (I don't care if it's through voting, revolution, or whatever) if dipshits like that guy can't even be Mikehttp://www.anitwar.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-2873533889649548442014-06-14T12:21:20.899-04:002014-06-14T12:21:20.899-04:00"If the masses would listen to you, what woul..."If the masses would listen to you, what would you tell them to do, exactly? Vote? Write a letter to the whore claiming to represent them? Carry a sign in a "free speech zone"? By a book by yet another libertarian preacher? "<br /><br />People won't be able to do ANYTHING unless they educate themselves first. That's step 1. If they can't even get that far then Mikehttp://www.anitwar.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-67066406500401969872014-06-14T11:21:37.814-04:002014-06-14T11:21:37.814-04:00@Mike 9:07AM
I am not convinced that the "ma...@Mike 9:07AM<br /><br />I am not convinced that the "masses" are all that bad. I am gravely suspicious of the electoral process: the total intellectual corruption of education and of the media, the rigged ballot access laws, the electronic voting machines, and the Orwellian destruction of the language by the statists all make voting a futile gesture. <br /><br />I would argue that John Howardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-82346095405874642014-06-14T11:00:24.627-04:002014-06-14T11:00:24.627-04:00"...some limits on property claims need to be..."...some limits on property claims need to be recognized to prevent cartelization."<br /><br />That's mistaken. What is wrong with a cartel? Is it not just a bunch of individuals who agree on a price to charge for their goods or services? Anti-trust / anti-cartel laws are nothing more than coercive interference in the free market. People have a right to agree and they have a John Howardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-85139333066322761222014-06-12T19:36:57.105-04:002014-06-12T19:36:57.105-04:00Call it anti-trust or not, some limits on property...Call it anti-trust or not, some limits on property claims need to be recognized to prevent cartelization of markets. The state, after all, is in essence a cartel on the market for protection services that tends to engulf every other market. The absurdity of anti-trust law is not that it impacts markets but that it is enforced by the worst cartel of all. What is needed are decentralized Jonathan Jaechhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10379443520888976176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-23649927706518449572014-06-12T13:36:57.535-04:002014-06-12T13:36:57.535-04:00Really terrible stuff from Browne! If he fancies ...Really terrible stuff from Browne! If he fancies himself a defender of the free market, then he should not praise anti-trust laws!!! Anti-trust laws -- a form of government economic planning -- punish successful companies and harm consumers by "protecting" them from receiving the best possible service and prices brought about by free competition. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-5431354407209436372014-06-12T09:07:44.213-04:002014-06-12T09:07:44.213-04:00"Yes, the way to achieve worldwide fame is to..."Yes, the way to achieve worldwide fame is to find some fancy rhetoric to promote the whores we affectionately call the state. Keynes did it. Marx did it. Friedman did it. Piketty is doing it. "<br /><br />You know what the funny part of this is? All you have to do is dress up old errors with new tinsel and the idiot shithead masses fall for the same damn things over and over and over Mikehttp://www.anitwar.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-5890839421656541872014-06-11T22:08:09.498-04:002014-06-11T22:08:09.498-04:00Calling Thomas Woods!
"In the early twenti...Calling Thomas Woods! <br /><br />"In the early twentieth century, U.S. Governments were alert to the destruction of free markets by monopolistic cartels and enacted strong anti-trust laws to curb their power. The United States thereafter achieved strong economic results in the first three decades of the 20th Century."<br /><br /><br />I think Mr. Browne needs to educate himself about Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-46269563602627734522014-06-11T21:10:00.606-04:002014-06-11T21:10:00.606-04:00"The French economist Thomas Piketty has achi..."The French economist Thomas Piketty has achieved worldwide fame by promoting a thesis that capitalism is the cause of growing economic inequality."<br /><br />Yes, the way to achieve worldwide fame is to find some fancy rhetoric to promote the whores we affectionately call the state. Keynes did it. Marx did it. Friedman did it. Piketty is doing it. <br /><br />Just don't try John Howardnoreply@blogger.com