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Hong Kong is not a good example....

There you go again. You asked for an example of a free-trade society that did well over a long term, and I gave it. Then, instead of saying, "Well, you got me there", you just find some reason to carp about it. No doubt how many I came up with (and it's true there aren't many because governments have this itch to interfere with everything), you would no doubt find something to carp about with all of them.

You anti-free-trade types are not interested in honest argument. You only wish to muddy up the waters to try and defend your ill-supported pre-conceptions.

So I asked once again for any data you might have to support your position, and you again fail to give any (your only link is an irrelevant one about opium in Hong Kong). As far as I'm concerned, it's game, set, and match for me. Thanks for playing.

Have you read the bios on Neutrino and A. Pole, or noticed their positions on various topics on other threads?

Neutrino starts bio, "I voted GWB in primaries and election but never again yada yada yada." Neutrino's positions on this thread so far: Constitution is a LIVING DOCUMENT yada yada yada, Cato Institute is a conservative think tank with an ax to grind yada yada yada, Ricardo and free market economics are old and useless in complex world yada yada yada, I hate the Von Mises Thesis to pieces yada yada yada, Joe's facts, graphs, Hong Kong and two hundred years of free market success must be ignored in complex GLOBAL ECONOMY yada yada yada, must ignore point about Karl Marx's crappy economic theory being from Ricardo's time period yada yada yada...

A Pole writes in another thread that if we are to say free market economics won't work because of gov't intervention then we can also say communism won't work because there are some bad people.

Troll alert! Folks, we have visitors from the DU faculty department! Mo, Terry, and Kerry must be proud.