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If you are a law-abiding and responsible person who doesn't have any debt, you might totally lose respect for the government and laws if you get fined $30,000 for having an illegal flagpole.

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@h4890 @korsier @freepatriot
@cjd

The state... maybe. This is the courts most of all, and those tend to read their own power into laws.

CJD mentioned Wickard v Fillburn, a case that should scare the daylights out of anyone, but we can also look to Marbury v Madison.

The courts are like a bureaucracy in themselves, and lawyers focus on wealth transfer as the solution to all problems (since it is the only means available to them in civil court).

@korsier @h4890 @freepatriot @EvolLove

Hitler makes me feel unwell, sort of like Lincoln.

Many good people died for his ideological tantrum.

Of course, it was not his alone, and Communism was far stupider, including FDR, but we need and deserve something better than National Socialism (spit).

@monarchist @korsier @freepatriot public governance is the anti-thesis of freedom.

So it has parts of a markets, but what it lacks is so essential that I would not use the term market for fear of confusing things.

@monarchist @korsier @freepatriot @cjd Makes perfect sense! What is interesting is that on a few occasions I did have teachers who were successful in business, and in their later years wanted to do some good by teaching, and generally, they were very good teachers!

@monarchist @cjd @korsier @freepatriot True. But let's not forget that markets are the best pricing mechanism, in the long run. This fact is very often forgotten when the left is arguing for the abolition of markets. In the short term, markets can get things just as wrong as politicians or leftists.

@monarchist @cjd @korsier @freepatriot

Well, in terms of the example, the clue is in the name. If it is public, it per definition, never has to care about the market, since it takes what it wants regardless of if it is based on free informed consent or not.

@monarchist @cjd @korsier @freepatriot This is the truth!

@h4890 @korsier @freepatriot

Sellers: politicians
Buyers: voters

"free, informed consent" = varies with ability of individual

Competition: different politicians

Freedom: your vote is private

@h4890 @korsier @freepatriot
@cjd

In my view, both the market for ideas and the market for votes follow market principles.

In this case, like in the case of decentralized education, the voters are choosing what they want but the voters experience no immediate direct consequences because the impact is socialized.