States are immune from lawsuits. Otherwise the entire US house and Senate would be sued for stealing the social security funds after having...
The big corporations/hedge funds/etc are the ones who move the market, if you're trying to take money from them you are most likely getting run...
but they aren't "forced" to buy that useless shit like they are forced to pay for the useless shit coming out of washington.
I've thought the very same thing many times. I'm constantly amazed at the socialist rhetoric coming from people who consider themselves traders.
Balance would be a good thing if it happened naturally, but trying to force it upon people through government regulation will never work....
This is the point I was trying to make, if you have government officials being paid off then you are not talking about a free market because...
First, let me just say that my conclusions here will obviously be theoretical since there has never been a truly free-market capitalist society....
How could big pharma & healthcare possible prevent disease? If individuals don't take responsibility for their own health there is nothing anyone...
There has never been a truly capitalist society, so you can't say that it creates monopolies & oligopolies. Those are usually the result of...
That's an excellent article on mises.org, thanks for the link. And I admit I wasn't thinking about federally mandated spending at the state level...
What do you mean by net contributor? I'm unaware of any state tax revenue that gets diverted to the federal government. And it doesn't matter...
Here is a spreadsheet showing federal money going to the states for state programs. Cutting this out would pay for most of the current deficit. I...
No harm done. I could have phrased that post better to get my point across. However, according to the American Heritage Dictionary I did not...
I know what communism is, do you? Communism 1. A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often...
What are you , a communist? Why does this industry need to be regulated? Why can't people be responsibile for there own actions and make...
That's ridiculous. Prevention entails consumers taking responsibility for their own health. Most people don't do that. In addition, when they...
SOCIALISM = MASSIVE WASTE OF RESOURCES I think greed is created by the government constanty stealing 1/3 - 1/2 of your income and wasting it.
If technology replaces human labor, that means the human labor was mindless anyway, as that would be the only way a machine could do the job. I...
The owners of the technology are not the only ones to gain. What about the consumers who purchase the products at a lower price? For any company...
Don't point fingers where they don;t belong. The US healthcare system is most certainly not a FREE market. The bungling politicians are to blame...
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