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To: Uncle Miltie

I did not avoid the point. I said representative democracies are in effect the best you can do.

You are proposing some sort of oligarchy or multinational socialism, which is just a new flavor of national socialism.


2,064 posted on 06/23/2016 9:36:38 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: SteveH

Actually, I am proposing NOTHING in the way of impediments to trade among people. NON-Government. Not intervention.

Representative Democracies are great for many things. Love them for law, contracts, fire and police, army, currencies, etc.

But even then, keeping the governmental portion of them as far away from people’s freedom to transact as they wish is wise. No bureaucrat or lawmaker can have the perfect knowledge of the needs of the market or the downstream effects of their actions. See Hayek.

Socialism (National or otherwise) is the intervention of the government to direct the resources of the country, a la a tariff to limit competition for politically favored industries that greased bureaucrats’ palms.


2,073 posted on 06/23/2016 9:42:29 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (This posting is a microaggression.)
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