Posted on 01/24/2006 11:31:04 AM PST by Marxbites
A free market is 99 cents cheaper than the 99 cent store.
Not exactly. The "Federalist" Founders wanted a mercantilist economy. The "Anti-Federalist" Founders were the advocates of a free market.
I think you'll find that what we have now adheres to the specifications of the Federalists.
A market can be free only if it is fair and that means regulated.
Yes, only government, that great arbiter of equity, can make markets free and fair by regulating them. ROFL!!!
Watch it . . . that kind of thinking can get one labeled as a globalist, or socialist, or some such nonsense.
The market must be regulated, but if that must mean gov't regulation, then is to be expected to find scoffers. There is something else besides gov't, always has been.
The answer to the question posed in the title is "A myth."
Thanks - and no wonder America is so screwed up!
It's full of ignorant statists!!!
What garbage we get here.
Federalists schmederalists.
Freedom means we own our own bodies and whatever we produce, ergo property rights are natural rights.
The ONLY reason for Govt to exist is to protect our rights and to compel men to do what they voluntarily will not do, ergo the rule of law to protect our rights and contracts etc, and to have justice for those that harm others, PERIOD!!!
Free people voluntarily exchange goods and services IF they want to.
Only complete idiots think regulation is a positive or necessary thing.
Unintentionally hilarious. I'll wager that you are a veritable laugh riot at the grocery store.
Au contraire.
Even before coins existed men bartered freely if it was deemed by each to be beneficial.
Got yer degree at Sears did ya?
Next we'll hear that "fair trade" a la the unions, is free trade - when it's just unions protecting themselves from competition at our expenses. Like the tariffs/subsidies making sugar cost Americans twice as much as offshore. The very reason candy companies have relocated OUT of the US.
Back to econ 101 for the dunces.
Oh, so you (the non-dunce) believe we have "free trade." Tell me, oh econ guru, which market or markets are not affected by artificial restraints on trade imposed by regulation?
The black market, for starters.
Enjoy your stay in fantasyland.
Ok, try this one: I paint your garage in exchange for you mowing my lawn.
And you have to deal with various laws regarding the disposal of paint.
And, where I live, I am required by law to purchase specific yard waste bags to dispose of the clippings and such.
It is if the risk is created by breach or avoidance of the law or regulation.
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