'Exchanges between countries have ballooned, so everyone would understand that the money to finance the EU should come from the benefits engendered by the EU,' he said."
Benefits engendered by the EU? How brazen are these people? The only reason exchanges ballooned between the citizens of the EU is because the treaties between those citizen's governments eliminated a few of the barriers those self-same governments had set up in the first place. In other words, the entire benefit of the EU is getting the governments out of the way of their citizens' border-crossing business.
That benefit comes from governments doing less. And I'm not surprised that these jerkfaces are trying to find a way to get people to pay them for a benefit they can't provide in the first place.
Erm, something ate two whole clauses from two consecutive sentences. To rephrase:
The flaw in that argument is that the free market can only reach prices for scarce resources. Resources that are not scarce (information, ideas) and must be protected by statutory 'rights' have no free market value. And the only way to enforce a statutory right is to violate a natural or property right (i.e., what I do with my recordable media in my DVD writer) by having the local justice monopoly (government) grant a useage monopoly (copyright, patent).
That's not free market.
So, my initial irritation with the IRS deciding to extort a huge chunk of money is offset by knowing that a corporation that lives by the sword is getting cut by it too.
The flaw in that argument is that the free market can only reach prices for scarce resources. Resources that are not scarce (information, ideas) and must be protected by statutory 'rights'. And the only way to enforce a statutory right is to violate a natural or property right (i.e., what I do with my recordable media in my DVD writer).
So, my initial irritation with the IRS deciding to extort a huge chunk of money is offset by knowing that a corporation that lives by the sword is getting cut by it too.
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It's a shame that this was almost a base-13 joke. And they said no one makes base-13 jokes.
'Exchanges between countries have ballooned, so everyone would understand that the money to finance the EU should come from the benefits engendered by the EU,' he said." Benefits engendered by the EU? How brazen are these people? The only reason exchanges ballooned between the citizens of the EU is because the treaties between those citizen's governments eliminated a few of the barriers those self-same governments had set up in the first place. In other words, the entire benefit of the EU is getting the governments out of the way of their citizens' border-crossing business. That benefit comes from governments doing less. And I'm not surprised that these jerkfaces are trying to find a way to get people to pay them for a benefit they can't provide in the first place.
The flaw in that argument is that the free market can only reach prices for scarce resources. Resources that are not scarce (information, ideas) and must be protected by statutory 'rights' have no free market value. And the only way to enforce a statutory right is to violate a natural or property right (i.e., what I do with my recordable media in my DVD writer) by having the local justice monopoly (government) grant a useage monopoly (copyright, patent).
That's not free market.
So, my initial irritation with the IRS deciding to extort a huge chunk of money is offset by knowing that a corporation that lives by the sword is getting cut by it too.
The flaw in that argument is that the free market can only reach prices for scarce resources. Resources that are not scarce (information, ideas) and must be protected by statutory 'rights'. And the only way to enforce a statutory right is to violate a natural or property right (i.e., what I do with my recordable media in my DVD writer).
So, my initial irritation with the IRS deciding to extort a huge chunk of money is offset by knowing that a corporation that lives by the sword is getting cut by it too.
Serves you right for inventing this nonsense.
I think I know what the issue is ...