[Questionmark]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Serial_Worrier', '
')The Intel CEO just said recently that it would have cost $1 billion MORE to open such a plant in the United States due to regulations, NOT taxes.

[Questionmark]

The problem I have with Libertarianism is how strictly it wishes to apply free market capitalism. Libertarians operate under the assumption that consumers are rational and that markets are efficient, and yet we've seen time and time again that this isn't true. They just refuse to acknowledge reality. Libertarianism is just anarchy, and we all know how effective of a system anarchy is.

[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Questionmark', 'G')ermany today is very different from what it was in the 1930's and 40's.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bratticus', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Questionmark', 'G')ermany today is very different from what it was in the 1930's and 40's.

[Oakley]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Questionmark', 'T')he problem I have with Libertarianism is how strictly it wishes to apply free market capitalism. Libertarians operate under the assumption that consumers are rational and that markets are efficient, and yet we've seen time and time again that this isn't true. They just refuse to acknowledge reality. Libertarianism is just anarchy, and we all know how effective of a system anarchy is.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Oakley', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Questionmark', 'T')he problem I have with Libertarianism is how strictly it wishes to apply free market capitalism. Libertarians operate under the assumption that consumers are rational and that markets are efficient, and yet we've seen time and time again that this isn't true. They just refuse to acknowledge reality. Libertarianism is just anarchy, and we all know how effective of a system anarchy is.

[Serial_Worrier]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Questionmark', 'T')he problem I have with Libertarianism is how strictly it wishes to apply free market capitalism. Libertarians operate under the assumption that consumers are rational and that markets are efficient, and yet we've seen time and time again that this isn't true. They just refuse to acknowledge reality. Libertarianism is just anarchy, and we all know how effective of a system anarchy is.

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Serial_Worrier', 'I') find it amazing that you hold a country that gave us Hitler(ein volk) is such high regard, and have nothing but utter contempt for American which freed the Iron Curtain!

[Serial_Worrier]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'Y')eah, but what have we done lately?

It is to Hitler that we owe a lot of our "greatness". He helped shatter the developed world leaving the US alone intact to rise to the top.

Now that is all done with, and not only are the developed countries back on our feet, the developing countries are nipping at our heels.

Toodles!

[BasilBoy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', ' ')Is the issue capitalism, or that they are PROMOTING capitalism? It seems to me that in any kind of truly anarchist state, that what will be will be - including the economic system -- as long as it doesn't rely on some government mandated force.

[Serial_Worrier]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BasilBoy', 'I') think the only way capitalism forms is WITH coercion, not the absence of it. Think about it...you're living off the land, hunter/gather style, with your family and community. Are you going to naturally go work in some crappy factory? Do you think slavery is natural (America's foundation was built with slave labor)? Somewhere along the line, humans decided to subjugate others for their own gain. This subjugation is now being done by states and corporations.

[Serial_Worrier]

http://www.thoughtsfromaconservativemom.com/?p=12163
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')ake factories. “I can tell you definitively that it costs $1 billion more per factory for me to build, equip, and operate a semiconductor manufacturing facility in the United States,” Otellini said.

The rub: Ninety percent of that additional cost of a $4 billion factory is not labor but the cost to comply with taxes and regulations that other nations don’t impose.

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Oakley', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Oakley', '
')You think that because there is not some thug commanding us to follow his rules that there would not be order, peace, and progress.

[Serial_Worrier]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'L')ibertarianism is a great liberating philosophy for sociopaths. Bad enough what we have now.

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Serial_Worrier', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'L')ibertarianism is a great liberating philosophy for sociopaths. Bad enough what we have now.

[Serial_Worrier]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'W')hat is the libertarian solution for market externalities or does a libertarian acknowledge such things? Erin Brokovich?

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Serial_Worrier', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Questionmark', 'T')he problem I have with Libertarianism is how strictly it wishes to apply free market capitalism. Libertarians operate under the assumption that consumers are rational and that markets are efficient, and yet we've seen time and time again that this isn't true. They just refuse to acknowledge reality. Libertarianism is just anarchy, and we all know how effective of a system anarchy is.

[BasilBoy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Serial_Worrier', 'W')hat nonsense. Humans stopped being in hunter-gatherer mode at least 10K years ago. Exceptions like aboriginal Indians and Masai warriors do NOT count. Modern capitalism appears only a few hundred years ago WELL into the feudal system. You are not a student of history, but sure viva la revolucion loser.

[Serial_Worrier]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BasilBoy', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Serial_Worrier', 'W')hat nonsense. Humans stopped being in hunter-gatherer mode at least 10K years ago. Exceptions like aboriginal Indians and Masai warriors do NOT count. Modern capitalism appears only a few hundred years ago WELL into the feudal system. You are not a student of history, but sure viva la revolucion loser.

[Asterisk]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '
')You are right that the far left and far right are hugely different. You are wrong to clai that the media hacks that infest these two channels are substantively different or behaviorally different -- they just come at things from their target audiences' differing viewpoints.