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Candidates for 'The State's Greatest Living Enemy'

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Kenneth Posted: Wed, Dec 1 2010 5:17 AM

Let's have non-Austrians this time.

 

I nominate Wikileaks founder Julian Assange , coolest looking one too.

I've heard Stefan Molyneux's show is growing very rapidly.

 

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Sieben replied on Wed, Dec 1 2010 8:09 AM

The statists themselves? They're not exactly running a sustainable version of statism.

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replied on Thu, Dec 2 2010 5:14 AM

Dont worry, the scandinavians have made g

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Sieben, Dont worry, the scandinavians have made good progress in that regard. As well as other conservative low debt nations.

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My only criticism of Assange would be that he still believes that government is necessary to ensure competition.  At least according to an interview in Forbes.

 

 http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/11/29/an-interview-with-wikileaks-julian-assange/5/

 

-but I have enough expertise in politics and history to understand that a free market ends up as monopoly unless you force them to be free.-

 

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Mtn Dew replied on Thu, Dec 2 2010 7:32 AM

I'd like to know what examples he has to prove his point. Economics ignorance is pretty common though, so it's not surprising he holds a stupid view like that.

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Sieben replied on Thu, Dec 2 2010 7:59 AM
Sieben, Dont worry, the scandinavians have made good progress in that regard. As well as other conservative low debt nations.
So as long as some governments exist that aren't bankrupt, you'll support states? Even if states were totally incompetent I'd expect there to always be a handful better than the rest...
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