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  • Re: High standard of living and the welfare state

    [quote user="sirmonty"] "The nations with the highest standards of living have strongly entrenched welfare states." How should a Libertarian address this statement? [/quote] First admit that without The State (or State Government, if he prefers to use the term government, it might...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by Nitroadict on Mon, Jan 5 2009
  • Re: The "Fair" Tax Threat

    In case I was being unclear, when I said "this seems logical to me," I did not mean that the "Fair" Tax seemed logical to me, but rather that the argument I had posed against the tax seemed logical. I originally came up with this argument a year ago. Here's a clip of what I had...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by allixpeeke on Wed, Nov 28 2007
  • The "Fair" Tax Threat

    Over a year ago, I made the argument that a massive sales tax would cause demand for R&D to drop, leaving society with a lower standard of living than they would otherwise have. This seems logical to me, but there's always the possibility that I'm failing to look at this from all angles....
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by allixpeeke on Mon, Nov 26 2007
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