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by zorga 8y ago
If you're going to make a comment like that, about a single moment in a video over an hour long, you could try and be kind to the reader and at least say where in the video this occurs.
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Finally, someone who actually understands the conversation being had. Absolutely correct; carbon taxes might be the best solution available, but they are not a free market solution. You seem to be the only one in this thread with the clarit
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No. While it may be the most market friendly approach, it's not a free market approach. There is not de facto free market solution, it's entirely possible the free market has no solution; that does not make the best available solu
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Markets exist with or without government, governments make markets more stable and handle cases of market failures, and markets do fail. But under no case is government intervention a free market solution. Lack of government does not abol
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> This is worse because the market not only has no way to price these cost but it is _blind_ to them. That you don't realize this means you think 'free markets' are 'magical' Not the guy you're replying to,
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> That is a free market solution. No, it isn't. Taxes are not free market solutions. End of story. Taxes are government interference in the market; this isn't debatable, it's just a fact.
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> Progressives are not economic liberals. They are under the American meaning of the word liberal, you just don't understand what liberal means in America. You are agreeing with me whether you understand it or not. What you mean by
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No, I don't have it backwards; you do, perhaps you don't understand American politics. > Liberal economics means fewer regulations, less federal planning, etc. Not in America, here we call that conservative. In America, liberal
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> I'm not saying that it diminishes any of his accomplishments It does, very few parents can afford to give a 100k loan, that's a massive leg up most have no access to.
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> Make no mistake, anyone born into an advanced country is privileged. Privilege is not binary, being born into a rich family gives you a massive amount of privilege that being born into the lower class doesn't regardless of how we
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Whether parliament or congress, those who make the laws have the power to do whatever they want; they do not have to have a reason. Police don't make law, they follow law, your comparison is not applicable. Probable cause applies to po
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> That use of the word liberal is quite obsolete. No it isn't, and in the era of social justice warriors, it's relevance is on the rise.
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> And when the tax is directly addressing externalities that are normally not paid, it makes the market less distorted. Agree, but that doesn't make the tax a free market solution. A free market solution would be a solution from the
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> liberal on social issues, staunchly conservative on regulation. That's what liberal actually means. To be liberal in both areas it to be a progressive.
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> I believe US foreign policy will potentially have very large changes due to their new found energy independence. Yup, that was the one of the main reasons we bore the cost of being the world's policeman and securing global shippin
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No, a tax is not a free market solution, it's the exact opposite.
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If you can't agree there's a difference between an irrational fear, and a core value, well then there's little point bothering to converse, you're too closed minded.
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It's not an irrational fear of the welfare state, it's an ideological opposition to collectivism from the half of the country that are ideologically individualistic.
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> Nationalization means the government owns the business, not that it runs it. Only difference is who collects the profits, Bezos or everyday people. A distinction without a difference, owners appoint who runs it, they effectively run it
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Money. When he realizes how much more he could be making doing software, he'll switch.
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> The best solution is to nationalize it. No, break them up. Governments are terrible at running businesses. Fragment the market legally so competition can't be eliminated by a monopoly. A competitive market is better than a govern
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> Artificially controlled selective breeding doesn't mean evolution Selective breeding is still evolution, it's just directed evolution. It's all evolution.