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  • Re: The Climate Change Debate

    I'd look to some articles that have used 'market' solutions for fisheries where the fishing industry in certain countries has been allowed a share of ownership of the fish, tradable/salable and what not as well. It's been a long time since I've read the articles so specifics escape me as to where they were put in place, but basically
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by xahrx on Tue, Dec 25 2007
  • Re: What is with all the immigrant hate?

    [quote user="Brainpolice"]You may very well object that OTHER currently existing laws in place are unethical, such as civil rights and welfare legislation, but that only means that there is a problem with those means, not open immigration in itself. Blaming open immigration (which we currently do not have, considering that illegal immigration
    Posted to General (Forum) by xahrx on Mon, Dec 24 2007
  • Re: What is with all the immigrant hate?

    [quote user="Kent C"]Hence, no goodies from Socialist Canada. [/quote] Too bad my Canadian friends are flipping out because they're paying for those goodies and have been for a while, and several local and national US news agencies have documented such goodies being hande out. That the system is being strained I have no doubt, that's
    Posted to General (Forum) by xahrx on Mon, Dec 24 2007
  • Re: What is with all the immigrant hate?

    [quote user="Sailor"]I would rather have her and those like her be given a bypass of the massive Federal bureaucracy lest they be rounded up with the rest and tossed back to their home country.[/quote] Indeed, the good and the bad come across. You've experienced the good, are you ready to experience the bad? Has MS 13 decimated your neighborhood
    Posted to General (Forum) by xahrx on Sun, Dec 23 2007
  • Re: What is with all the immigrant hate?

    [quote user="Brainpolice"]If you favor free association, you have no choice but to support me hiring illegal immigrants, allowing them into my home and selling them homes. Unless, of course, you wish to treat the entire territory as if it is the private property of the government, in which case you justify all sorts of aspects of statism.
    Posted to General (Forum) by xahrx on Sun, Dec 23 2007
  • Re: The Shock Doctrine

    [quote user="HRoth"]Whats the difference between corporatism and capitalism? and where can I find more indepth writings on that?[/quote] Check this very website. Corporatism is when government power is given to, well in our current model, corporations. But trade guilds, industrial powers, that kind of thing. It's rule by The CEO of Wal
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by xahrx on Sat, Dec 22 2007
  • Re: How to fund the state?

    [quote user="ozzy43"] Nock has some ideas about this, in reference to Jefferson - the basic idea is to stop thinking top down, as we've all been conditioned to think, and start thinking bottom-up - this is related to the standard and accepted minarchist principle of subsidiarity (emphasis mine):[/quote] I can see your point, but the state
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by xahrx on Thu, Dec 20 2007
  • Re: How to fund the state?

    You can't voluntarily fund something that is inherently voluntary. The problem is people have a natural tendency toward thievery. There is a demand for the government, because people see it as easier and more desirable sometimes to use force to get what they want than to pony up and pay for it themselves or possibly not get it. Impatience, time
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by xahrx on Wed, Dec 19 2007
  • Re: Megan McArdle pointed out a series of bad things with the gold standard

    [quote user="Inquisitor"] I concur with the above responses. Isn't this guy assuming that inflation is accurately measured, BTW, when he mentions expectations? Something Austrians would contest.[/quote] It is implicit in his assumption. A measure like 'core' inflation whcih exlcudes pesky things which might actually show inflation
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by xahrx on Wed, Dec 19 2007
  • Re: Is this a rational argument?

    From the point of view of the government a purely progressive tax doesn't make sense. Generally speaking if you want to steal money you don't go to the poor because they have no money, but you also don't go to the rich either, or at least not those rich enough to cause problems or buy their way out of being victims. You go after those with
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by xahrx on Tue, Dec 4 2007
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