> “If you truly believe in free markets and economic liberty, then you will hold that the government has no business giving special favors to building and construction, when it doesn’t give exactly the same favors to every other sector of the economy. It’s the difference between free-market capitalism and the Mr. Trump’s favorite, government-managed crony capitalism.”
Your statement is preloaded with judgmental phrases, false premises and conclusions.
For example, “if you truly believe” implies a respondent is not genuine unless they dance to your tune.
For example, “free markets and economic liberty”, two theoretical constructs that learned economists of every stripe including Milton Friedman could not fully characterize. Further, legitimate arguments exist across the spectrum as in Free Trade is more correctly characterized as Dumb Trade when it comes to accounting for the benefits received by American industries. Free Trade that is in any one instance unfair is not Free Trade, therefore, it is a construct that demands perfection, thus exists as an idealistic notion that is impossible to achieve in practice. Further again, Free Trade benefits the Oligarchs who have control of the profiteering thereof and as a result, abandon their country of origin to subscribe to a New World Order where they rule by actions of Central Banks.
For example, “government has no business giving special favors to building and construction, when it doesn’t give exactly the same favors to every other sector of the economy” is a falsehood because indeed, the federal government does give special favors to every sector of the economy and has created a lobbying industry to trade in favors for which the profits, kickbacks and revolving doors are obscene.
Mr. Trump played the game at the larger end of the scale for the purpose of obtaining passes for his businesses to move forward. He is no different than millions upon millions of builders who every day must deal with building departments, city councils, mayor’s offices, county executives and state governor’s offices. For you to name-call Trump’s work as crony capitalism serves to insult and belittle tens of millions of hard working Americans.
>> “free markets and economic liberty”, two theoretical constructs that learned economists of every stripe including Milton Friedman could not fully characterize <<
Sorry, but if you should dismiss Milton Friedman’s understanding of free markets with such a cavalier statement, then I have absolutely nothing to discuss with you.