I finally realized why I don't call myself a libertarian

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Actually no.

your logical fallacies are so erroneous that you generally don't even merit a response
 
It's almost pointless to discuss. I think there's a way to do it, but I don't think it's realistic to imagine that it would ever be implemented.

I'm not ideologically opposed to the existing system, either, though it clearly has its shortcomings.
 
lol I love when econ juniors come on here and spit out definitions from their textbooks. Free markets are based on Price being the correct measure for the costs and benefits for a transaction, and that is simply an incomplete measurement.
 
I want to see other markets grow, but at the same time if we continue to buy products made with low-wage labor then we cannot compete with them. Their workers will make the same product for a fraction of the cost.
 
Alright. As I mentioned in the original post, I had a "don't know smilie." Just a guess.

But are you against hostile foreign multinational monopolies taking over our economy?
 
Lew recently sent me a PM asking me what my views were and I replied with similar post to yours.



He was then replied he was proud of me for being well on the way to "full fledged anti-statist anarcho-capitalism". So I guess you are on the way too
 
I'm not a conspiracy theorist.


But I do get the sinking suspicion that you're projecting your particular point of view and wondering if I agree. You didn't get this idea from the History Channel, did you?
 
3rd parties can successfully push 1 policy as long as they stay on track.

Take Ron Paul, it took him decades to somewhat get it and this year he finally got his issue passed (audit the fed). The shotgun blast doesn't work, the message has to be focussed on 1 issue.
 
You mean we can't compete with them in markets where massive quantities of unskilled low-wage labor are a prerequisite.

And we shouldn't want to. Who the fuck envisions a utopia where millions Americans are slaving over sewing machines for 10 hours a day?

They can build tennis shoes. We'll build airplanes. Once we've bought enough of their tennis shoes, someone's going to realize that they can afford to buy an airplane ticket now, start an airline, and start buying a bunch of our planes.
 
understandable

yet EC/Alex consider them selfs "democrats" so under the same principles every other person who beliefs align with the political term must be a idiot and a racist
 
are you familiar with the concept of competitive advantage? if their workers can make the same product at a fraction of the cost, we are at a competitive disadvantage in the production of that item and should put our workers to use on something more productive, like an industry we DO have a competitive advantage in.

If it's cheaper to buy clothes made in China/Taiwan/whatever, why in the world should we waste money, resources, and manpower producing more expensive clothing when we could just buy the cheaper stuff and use all of that stuff to produce, say, microchips (just an example)?
 
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