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Gower's thesis ignores the rent-seeking, grabbing hand of government. Yes, many government policies are defensible, if not desirable, when framed for the common
by rrggrr 10y ago
Gower's thesis ignores the rent-seeking, grabbing hand of government. Yes, many government policies are defensible, if not desirable, when framed for the common good, common ideals, common values, etc.
But we know that many policies only advance the interests of those in government, their friends and those who hold power of politicians. The grabbing hand of government engages in rent-seeking at the local level, federal level, and the common body level; and at each step the citizen in Leeds or London is further removed from the policy-maker.
Against all the arguments to remain in the Euro-zone, there is this argument... Its not enough for capital, people and ideas to be free to travel physical borders. There must be sufficient sovereign diversity that they can travel to countries where there is less institutional resistance to a status quo that keeps them from flourishing.
Even better if they do not have to travel anywhere to flourish because the people chose to exit a restrictive, occasionally repressive federation.
- jamespo 10y agoCan you please give examples of these reprehensible policies?
- CamperBob2 10y agoSee any recent article about Venezuela.
- jamespo 10y agoWhen did they join the EU?
- CamperBob2 10y agoWhat did the OP say that was genuinely specific to the EU?
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoI'm not in the EU, rather in the US. But I think I know what rrggrr is talking about. We've got all these things the government does. Each one, taken by itself, sounds like a good thing. But when you step back and look at the whole size of the government, it's insane how big it is. (We'd be more aware of this if we actually had to pay for all of it, instead of running a deficit.) I'd expect those in the EU to feel this even more, because there the governments are even larger in terms of percentage of GNP.
- return0 10y agoWhat you 're suggesting is essentially that britain leaves the EU to join the US ?