Mexico's plan for nation-wide housing boom goes bust

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  1. bringiton

    bringiton Well-Known Member

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    It's been a mainstay of economic analysis since Quesnay. Try reading some of it.
     
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    Reiver Well-Known Member

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    Come now, don't be a petty dodger. You've made the claim that free markets do not exist but can "sort of". Give me a reference to just one recent analysis that supports your case. You can't can you?
     
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    Of course not: recent analysis is all about 'free' markets, not free markets.
     
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    Given you hate to use the Georgist card, let's just call your approach 'pie in the sky'
     
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    Eradication of slavery, polio and guinea worms were once pie in the sky, too.
     
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    The eradication of slavery reflected human merit. Polio reflected scientific understanding.

    Comparing that with your make believe economics does raise a smile mind you.
     
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    Google "Semmelweiss" and start reading. You might see a useful analogy.
     
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    No thanks. If you can't craft an argyment, that's your hard cheese!
     
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    If you refuse to know facts because they prove your beliefs are false and evil, that's your hard cheese.
     
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    You've been informed of the obvious numerous times. Calling people evil because they don't support your pie in the sky approach is not credible. It's childish.
     
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    Mirror time.
    I call your false beliefs evil because they rationalize and justify deliberate abrogation of others' rights without just compensation with intent to inflict injustice, which IMO captures the essence of evil.
     
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    kazenatsu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    That sounds like the Geolibertarian/Georgism argument.

    The problem with that is not so much economic, but political. (It is the same reason the drafters of the United States Constitution were wary about direct taxation, another parallel I'll quickly mention here; "direct tax" being a tax that's not on a transaction or that's on someone's livelihood)

    If we truly had an omniscient omnibenevolent government, that would be the most optimum economic system.
     
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    Repetition won't help. It only increases the perception of rant. You call people evil because of a blinkered outlook that refuses to accept pluralist perspectives. It's arguably a form of fundamentalism.
     
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    You could say I'm a geolibertarian, though I generally lean towards bigger government than typical geolibertarians, as long as it is funded without unjust and economically harmful taxation.
    Right. Most of the people who are victims of the problem of landowner privilege think it is a solution.
    It's also the optimum system even though we don't.
     
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    I know it won't help with YOU, but it will help others to understand what I have said, and why you hate the truth I tell.
    Calling facts you can't refute and that prove your beliefs are false and evil "rant" only further disgraces you.
    No, that is just you makin $#!+ up again. I explained EXACTLY why and when I call people and their beliefs evil, and I decline to accept evil lies and the lying liars who tell them in the name of "pluralism."
    You either respect facts or you don't. You don't, and so you call respect for facts "fundamentalism." Simple.
     
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    You're ranting again? Calling people evil, for no other reason than they've disagreed with your blinkered viewpoint, is pathetic. It will always be pathetic.
     

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