The dollar is strong if you measure its value relative to something useless like gold--increasing 30% since 2011. Of course nobody wants to face the facts and compare it to something with INTRINSIC VALUE like rhodium or palladium, but that's just because everyone but me and you are idiots.
Roads, rivers, sidewalks, oceans, air space, outer space, and the earth's mantle should also be private. Let the free market decide what it should cost for access rights to walk across town, sail overseas, or fly to the moon.
I know, right? Inflation is so bad that when I go to the supermarket to buy my weekly supply of palladium I can only afford about a third of what I could a few years ago. Granted, if you measure dollar's value in something stupid like gold you'll see a 30% increase in purchasing power in less than two years, but what kind of idiot would do that?
Anything the taxpayers money is going to be spent on needs to have quantifiable and measurable goals of success or its just some ideological feelgood bullshit.
Truth. If the next James Clerk Maxwell wants to play around with useless curiosities like magnets he should do it on his own dime. The only science governments should fund are those where the outcome is already known.
True equality under the law would mean everyone having equal non-exclusive rights to all property. The only true property rights that exist are those which are backed by force. Government protecting "your" property effectively makes it their property, which is indistinguishable from communism.
The only role for the government is to enforce individual rights and contract law and protect borders against invasion.
Individual taxpayer's rights, you mean. If you don't pay taxes you don't deserve the right to vote, and once you give up the right to vote, or any other right for that matter, you give up ALL rights.
This is why air pollution is such a huge problem. Property owners need to start claiming ownership of all the airspace above their land. Airlines can negotiate with individual property owners for the right to fly in their airspace. Unauthorized aircraft can be dealt with the same way you would deal with any other trespasser.
If we did away with the idea that government was responsible for protecting individual liberties we could stop stealing capital from private ownership to pay for a court system. Any government powerful enough to protect individual liberties will necessarily be powerful enough to infringe individual liberties. It's far more just to let individuals and the free market protect their own liberties.
Is your position that the problem was caused by the river not having an owner? That can't be the case, since nothing would have stopped the owner from just accepting payments from the business owners to dump their waste. If not, what are you trying to say?
Eventually the privately owned river would run into a privately owned ocean, at which point the owner of the ocean could sue for damages, assuming he had the foresight to own or lease a court of law. He could then send his privately owned sheriff to seize the assets of the original polluter.
To have free markets there has to be as little government regulations as possible while having private property rights protected equally.
Government must not, and is not authorized to protect private property rights, as doing so necessarily requires stealing people's private property. Property rights will be protected just fine once the government stops interfering with free market protection services.
We will only be equal before the law when the weight of person's vote is directly proportional to the amount of land they own. Until then we as a nation are just a bunch of takers, a handful of makers, and a whole lot of takers who believe that they're makers.
Yet DHL, UPS, Fedex are regulated under law, which makes them liable to lawsuits, to 'provide equal access' and all that nonsense, while in reality they want to provide the best customer service in order to win against competition.
Clearly this is the case. FedEx, UPS, and DHL all refuse to deliver to the dock of my lake front cabin, while USPS does, but I'm sure they would if not for discrimination preventing them from buying a boat or something.
A company that sells to the poor becomes extremely rich because that's the market where the most money is and figuring out how to satisfy their demands will make you very very wealthy, this includes water as well.
Agreed. When the bottom 60% hold a whopping 4.2% of the wealth a company would be just downright foolish to not focus on this market, because clearly that's where all the money it. This is why Apple has never been able to turn a profit.
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Clearly you didn't read his LINK or else you would have been convinced by the crushing legal CONSTITUTIONAL scholarship of BOLD and italic text.
All taxes are THEFT and are UNCONSTITUTIONAL, as are the parts of the constitution that authorize UNCONSTITUTIONAL taxes.
The dollar is strong if you measure its value relative to something useless like gold--increasing 30% since 2011. Of course nobody wants to face the facts and compare it to something with INTRINSIC VALUE like rhodium or palladium, but that's just because everyone but me and you are idiots.
Idiot, any transaction can be reversed if you simply run time in the opposite direction.
Unemployment decreased because the value of the dollar increased by 30% as measured by the price of gold.
- no, that's not why they are unlikely to be unsafe. These things are unlikely to be unsafe because nobody will buy such products.
True that. Nobody in the history of free markets has ever purchased an unsafe product except when the government forced them to.
Roads, rivers, sidewalks, oceans, air space, outer space, and the earth's mantle should also be private. Let the free market decide what it should cost for access rights to walk across town, sail overseas, or fly to the moon.
I know, right? Inflation is so bad that when I go to the supermarket to buy my weekly supply of palladium I can only afford about a third of what I could a few years ago. Granted, if you measure dollar's value in something stupid like gold you'll see a 30% increase in purchasing power in less than two years, but what kind of idiot would do that?
Standard Oil managed to be competitive enough consistently lowering prices from 1969 all the way until it was broken up
Are you measuring these prices in intrinsically valuable rhodium or palladium backed currencies, or inflationary paper theft money?
Amen, brother. Unfortunately my local Ryder truck rental location doesn't accept payment in the form of real intrinsically valuable currency.
Anything the taxpayers money is going to be spent on needs to have quantifiable and measurable goals of success or its just some ideological feelgood bullshit.
Truth. If the next James Clerk Maxwell wants to play around with useless curiosities like magnets he should do it on his own dime. The only science governments should fund are those where the outcome is already known.
True equality under the law would mean everyone having equal non-exclusive rights to all property. The only true property rights that exist are those which are backed by force. Government protecting "your" property effectively makes it their property, which is indistinguishable from communism.
they are not the same thing
But how can this be?! The greatest political scientist the world has ever known recently wrote that
Fascism and communism are one and the same
Please, roman_mir, resolve this paradox for us before the entire universe kerplodes. You're our only hope!
The government has this bond as an asset and a liability
But how can this be?! One of the great economists of this or any century has clearly said that you can't have the same thing being an asset and a liability. I think MY HEAD IS GOING TO ASSPLODE !!1
The only role for the government is to enforce individual rights and contract law and protect borders against invasion.
Individual taxpayer's rights, you mean. If you don't pay taxes you don't deserve the right to vote, and once you give up the right to vote, or any other right for that matter, you give up ALL rights.
This is why air pollution is such a huge problem. Property owners need to start claiming ownership of all the airspace above their land. Airlines can negotiate with individual property owners for the right to fly in their airspace. Unauthorized aircraft can be dealt with the same way you would deal with any other trespasser.
If we did away with the idea that government was responsible for protecting individual liberties we could stop stealing capital from private ownership to pay for a court system. Any government powerful enough to protect individual liberties will necessarily be powerful enough to infringe individual liberties. It's far more just to let individuals and the free market protect their own liberties.
Is your position that the problem was caused by the river not having an owner? That can't be the case, since nothing would have stopped the owner from just accepting payments from the business owners to dump their waste. If not, what are you trying to say?
Eventually the privately owned river would run into a privately owned ocean, at which point the owner of the ocean could sue for damages, assuming he had the foresight to own or lease a court of law. He could then send his privately owned sheriff to seize the assets of the original polluter.
The problem is, only religion does deal with absolute certainties. They do it by the way of dogma
Molecular biologists, too...
To have free markets there has to be as little government regulations as possible while having private property rights protected equally.
Government must not, and is not authorized to protect private property rights, as doing so necessarily requires stealing people's private property. Property rights will be protected just fine once the government stops interfering with free market protection services.
The least government regulation, and thus the freest market, is found on Mars, thus all the smart businesses will be moving there soon enough.
Free markets mean treating your employees like shit, and by this measure China has some of the freest markets in the world.
We will only be equal before the law when the weight of person's vote is directly proportional to the amount of land they own. Until then we as a nation are just a bunch of takers, a handful of makers, and a whole lot of takers who believe that they're makers.
Yet DHL, UPS, Fedex are regulated under law, which makes them liable to lawsuits, to 'provide equal access' and all that nonsense, while in reality they want to provide the best customer service in order to win against competition.
Clearly this is the case. FedEx, UPS, and DHL all refuse to deliver to the dock of my lake front cabin, while USPS does, but I'm sure they would if not for discrimination preventing them from buying a boat or something.
A company that sells to the poor becomes extremely rich because that's the market where the most money is and figuring out how to satisfy their demands will make you very very wealthy, this includes water as well.
Agreed. When the bottom 60% hold a whopping 4.2% of the wealth a company would be just downright foolish to not focus on this market, because clearly that's where all the money it. This is why Apple has never been able to turn a profit.