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To: DieHard the Hunter
"...be allowed to make a contract with anybody you like. And you should be able to freely associate with anybody you like. Trade Unions are consistent with these..."

It doesn't stop there.   In Econ 1A, "pure capitalism" is defined as a market where neither any one buyer nor any one seller can affect the market price.  In buying and selling labor, we need the same number of man-hour buyers as we got sellers.  That's why we need lots of unions and lots of employers, so neither side can control of the price of labor.


72 posted on 01/08/2009 7:09:48 AM PST by expat_panama
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To: expat_panama
That's why we need lots of unions and lots of employers, so neither side can control of the price of labor.

Yeah, the UAW and Teamsters are such good examples of free-market enterprise.

76 posted on 01/08/2009 7:28:30 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (Hey Obama, why lawyer up when you can pony up? Show us your vault copy BC)
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