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And, how has totally free markets benefited you directly?


Where do you find markets free of government protection? Specifically - what & where?


Why would you not want to be protected?






...these questions ARE STILL HERE if you would like to address them.



All the best.



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rantal wrote:

Free-market economics is the only proper economics, and everything else is B.S.

Again, that is just a theory and a hopelessly naive one that is not born out in practice, the most successful economies long term are mixed economies.

Want to know what a real free market economy looks like? Think of Victorian England that is the nearest you'll get. Opulence for a very, very few, degridation, misery and oppression for everyone else

all the best, rantal

I'm sorry, but you simply don't know what you're talking about. I would be happy to address any specific point you might want to raise, but by a free market, I mean two parties negotiating a price for something without either of them putting a gun to the other's head, or the government putting a gun to somebody's head. See, people just don't understand my argument for gun control.

bobevenson wrote:

rantal wrote:

Free-market economics is the only proper economics, and everything else is B.S.

Again, that is just a theory and a hopelessly naive one that is not born out in practice, the most successful economies long term are mixed economies.

Want to know what a real free market economy looks like? Think of Victorian England that is the nearest you'll get. Opulence for a very, very few, degridation, misery and oppression for everyone else

all the best, rantal

I'm sorry, but you simply don't know what you're talking about. I would be happy to address any specific point you might want to raise, but by a free market, I mean two parties negotiating a price for something without either of them putting a gun to the other's head, or the government putting a gun to somebody's head. See, people just don't understand my argument for gun control.

Well if that is what you mean by a free market then you have failed to understand the meaning of the term in the English language

all the best, urban

rantal wrote:Well if that is what you mean by a free market then you have failed to understand the meaning of the term in the English language.

Please, you don't have the slightest understanding of any facet of economics, much less free-market economics.

bobevenson wrote:

rantal wrote:Well if that is what you mean by a free market then you have failed to understand the meaning of the term in the English language.

Please, you don't have the slightest understanding of any facet of economics, much less free-market economics.

So, you say but offer no evidence or reasoning to support this tendencious claim

all the best urban

rantal wrote:

bobevenson wrote:

rantal wrote:Well if that is what you mean by a free market then you have failed to understand the meaning of the term in the English language.

Please, you don't have the slightest understanding of any facet of economics, much less free-market economics.

So, you say but offer no evidence or reasoning to support this tendencious claim

all the best urban

People who support minimum wage laws are either economic idiots, because these laws hurt the very people supposedly being helped, or have a vested interest, like unions.

I'll try to offer a short explanation that maybe even you can understand. If you raise the minimum wage, employers on the verge of letting somebody go, will lay that person off. Mr. Obama can now say, "Well, you don't have a job anymore, but if you did, you'd be making some pretty good money." Unions love minimum wage laws since they increase the wages of its members.

Employers always make decisions in their best interests. If they don't, they go bankrupt. Unfortunately, the government can make bad decisions all day long and never go bankrupt. If employers are forced by the government to pay minimum wages, the employer can shift work to more productive employees, buy equipment that doesn't require as much labor, or lose more business to places like China.

Yeah, tell that to Einstein, idiot.

rantal wrote:No need, it was indeed Einstein's ability to see beyond the theory that led him to make the paradigm shift in physics

all the best, rantal

I'm sorry, you don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about.