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Being that land is unowned, everybody has the right to go there, by the virtue of his right to freedom (of movement). And being that one, by his use of the land, has impaired others in their right to freedom, he owes them some sort of recompensation, called "land value tax". As the quote of Thomas Paine (which is on the wikipedia article about
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Capitalism includes an obvious exclusion of government from intervention of people interacting in a voluntary manner, and they know it works. You dont really have to explain anything to them once you clarify its definition. Eh, I'm not so sure that "obvious exclusion" is so obvious. A lot of people have come to define capitalism as the
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I've come to like the term "Market Anarchist". It says what it does right on the tin: Markets (ie. free exchange of property/capital/resources) and Anarchy (ie. a lack of a territorial monopoly on force. I've found that anarcho-capitalism is too loaded of a term, and too linked to Rothbard specifically to represent my views. Voluntarism
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What i want to know is how the occupy wall street socialists are SOOOOO incredibly uneducated (for the most part), but believe they understand socialism so much? Eh, go to any Tea Party rally and ask the protesters to define capitalism, Austrian economics, or the role of the State. You'll probably get equally uneducated answers. The bottom line
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These people believe - mistakenly, if you ask me - that business activity won't change if corporate profits are taxed at 100%. But it's the hope (if not the expectation) of material profit that motivates people to engage in business activity. Remove that, and what sort of business activity would people engage in? Psychic profit is all well and
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"Hey guys, I have this idea, I'm going to put zero effort into this thread and expect people to spend time responding to a vauge subject title! What do you think?...Hey were did everyone go?"
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There are lots of harmful things that aren't illegal. Sawdust is harmful if you breathe too much of it. The Panama Canal would not exist without DDT. How's that? The canal was opened for business in 1914, something like 25 years before DDT was discovered to be effective as an insecticide.
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I think as a lapel pin the bright yellow looks a bit garish. It works great as a logo on images, stickers, etc. But as a lapel pin it's too flashy. Maybe a more subdued yellow or gold would be better.
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@ LogisticEarth No, we need someone who will actually stand up to feminism. Please define what feminism is, because I'm pretty sure you don't know what you're talking about. Many feminists persue their goals via statist means, but the general message of feminism jives with much of the liberty movement.
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Andrew, I'm not sure how much the Paul supporters deluded themselves into beleiving they can change the system, I think that Paul himself may have done that. His rhetoric is/was all about constitutional government and the US Constitution in general. A lot of people who became Paul supporters were apathetic non-political individuals, or independents