individualism for the masses!
Sometimes people post comments to blog entries from long long ago. It seems a pity to let them comment in obscurity, so here is a new pointer to an old post from almost a year and a half ago -- one that deals with the question of statist claims of implied consent (and statist comparisons between economic regulation and traffic regulation):
B.K. Marcus is an amateur political economist with no formal education in the subject. He works from Charlottesville, Virginia, as an editorial consultant for the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He is no longer a house husband, nor a faculty spouse, but he is still a dilettante, and a layabout, at least in spirit.
"It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance."
| Ludwig von Mises: "The greater the fund of means of subsistence in a community, the lower the rate of interest." - The Theory of Money and Credit |
The government gets the money by tax-coercion; and the public creditors, far from being innocents, know full well that their proceeds will come out of that selfsame coercion. In short, public creditors are willing to hand over money to the government now in order to receive a share of tax loot in the future.
Murray N. Rothbard, |
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1 Comments:
Wonderful points.
What would you say to the statist who says that leaving a small town's jurisdiction is the same sort of withdrawal of consent as leaving a small private community that imposes rules you don't like?
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