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Not all industries hire equal numbers of minimum wage workers, though, and some just export the jobs. For example, the programming industry would be largely unaffected since most involved get paid significantly more than $18 an hour, but the service industry, especially restaurants, would be hit hard by a huge minimum wage increase, so they'd either
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Stupid forum wrecked my longer post >< Anyway, I think you seem to be missing the "cause" versus the "effect". There are three situations where the black market is strong: when the economy, or sector (drugs in the US for example) is literally strangled by tight control, when the state is already too weak to enforce it's
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lol no its not, we are talking about black markets. supply in white markets is severly limited by the state in some cases, yes. not so in black markets, the price settles and the market clears. when effective demand increases supply quickly (and I mean QUICKLY) follows suit. The free market is efficient, it isn't magic . The costs of complying to
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I think you need to step back a minute and think about this, youre not making much sense. first of all, the state literally doesnt even exist, its just a fiction. so when you talk about the state pillaging me, you actually mean an agent of the state depriving me of property (like sales tax). so thats where the white marketeer actually supports the state
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I've been calling myself a libertarian for a long time, and prior to '07 you would have gotten more blank stares at the mention of "Ron Paul" than by mentioning "libertarian" even though people tended to conflate the political philosophy with the political party of the same name. conservatives co-opting libertarian ideas
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Ron Paul still received more airtime than any other libertarian before or since, though. In turn, he brought far more people to the libertarian way of thinking than anyone else, really. Before his presidential run in '08, calling yourself a "libertarian" would get lots of blank stares. Now, we're sufficiently important for conservatives
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There is a balance to be struck here. On one hand, let's be completely honest here, we aren't going to get anywhere if we sit on our asses and refuse to do anything politically, or hang out in echo chambers telling each other how righteous our beliefs are. Even if we convince a sizable amount of people that libertarian principles are correct
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Canuckistan.
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Huh. What'd he do?