Can we have a civil, thoughtful discussion on this?

but of course you know perfectly well you've been shown.

 

but you know that it isn't, as well as myself and everyone else reading. Lol

 

we are not talking about their label but that they fought for limited govt while you said doing so was caused by a fevered brain. What do you have against the American idea of freedom?

 

rahl is convinced that when he writes something he has shown the truth. Sad but very typical of liberalism.

 

actually you have to have a reason to say why America's political philosophy of freedom does not line up with reality. Does a liberal even know a reason is necessary?

 

Our founders were silly and wrong because they fought for freedom from powerful central govt?? Is it just coincidence that they created greatest county in human history?

 

Did they also fight against a powerful central bank?

 

You claimed they were conservative. I corrected you. Your idea of freedom isn’t the American idea.

 

Why do you make **** up?

 

This is called a strawman. Does a conservative have to make **** up all the time?

 

You seem to think your subjective, and incorrect opinion, somehow trumps reality. It’s amusing.

 

Our Founders were silly and wrong because they fought for freedom from powerful central govt?? Is it just coincidence that they created greatest county in human history?

 

You seem to think your subjective, and incorrect opinion, somehow trumps reality. It’s amusing.

 

No, I've proved to you that it is, as you know.

Anyone who has followed the entire exchange will be aware that you made no attempt at argument, while I demonstrated the accuracy of my statements with facts and logic.

 

I and anyone else who has followed the entire exchange is aware that you have not even made an attempt at argument, have offered no facts, no logic, nothing but your false and unsupported claims.

 

but we both know that it isn't.

You know this is false.

 

but of course you know perfectly well you've been shown.

 

rahl always imagines he has shown us the truth without even offering an argument, just his assertion that he has spoken the truth. See why we say liberalism is based in pure ignorance?.

 

james always pretends he hasn't been shown the truth, without even offering an argument. just his assertion that he hasn't been shown. see why conservatism is based in pure stupidity and lies?

 

But a free market occasionally (and not so rarely as you may think) suffers market failure as David Friedman explains.
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Machinery_3d_Edition/Market Failure.htm

 

I know that it is, and am quite sure that you also know that it is.

I know for certain that it is true.

 

I know you have never provided any facts, logic or arguments to support your claims. None. And if you claim you have, tell us which post #, and quote it.

Thought not.

 

rahl's original comment, forgive me if I'm wrong, was "Georgism is bullshit". There are easy means to support that statement. First, you could refer to the irrelevance of the 'single tax'. Second, you could refer to the irrelevance of Georgism in modern economics (such that you are completely reliant on quotes from folk that admit land is important). Land Economists, for example, largely sideline Georgist comment. Third, you could refer to policymaking. Samuels (2003, Why the Georgist Movement Has Not Succeeded, American Journal of Economics and Sociology) sums it up nicely: "While Georgist ideas have influenced policies around the world, the level of success, compared to what one might have expected, has been so minuscule as to border on, if not constitute, failure"

 

if so why so afraid to give us the best example of this? What does your fear tell us?

 

Read the article before planting your foot in your mouth.