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To: harpseal
If it is not expressable in mathematics it is not science. You do not understand economics.

Economics isn't mathematics. Human behaviour, of which it is the study, isn't as predictable as chemistry or algebra. Sorry, that's just how it is. Logic, not the slide rule, is how understanding is acheived. Humans aren't interchangeable like oxygen atoms, they all perceive and respond to stimuli differently. You still refuse to tell me how you quantitatively measure what I didn't get a chance to do, or better yet, would do left unmolested by your rapacious bureaucracy.

The revolution was fought over no taxation without representation not for no government and no taxation.

It was fought against consolidation of political power, which resurfaced with the Civil War, and has literally exploded in the 20th century.

You alsmost sound like the French polemicist Bastiat who argued tariffs were tyranny and the USA was wrong to have them. IMHO he was at best a naive idiot.

No, he just had you pegged as one. Ever read the Candlestick Maker's Petition? More importantly, do you understand it? Your on the side of those wanting to deny 280 million Americans less expensive heat and light, under the guise of helping us and 'creating jobs'.

503 posted on 08/26/2003 5:37:40 AM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: Gunslingr3; harpseal
Sad day when the great Frenchman Bastiat is maligned.

You alsmost sound like the French polemicist Bastiat who argued tariffs were tyranny and the USA was wrong to have them. IMHO he was at best a naive idiot. No, he just had you pegged as one. Ever read the Candlestick Maker's Petition? More importantly, do you understand it? Your on the side of those wanting to deny 280 million Americans less expensive heat and light, under the guise of helping us and 'creating jobs'.

Bastiat has been proven right time and time again in his predictions and points. "THE LAW" is so simple - any regulation denying freedom gives to one person by taking from another. Government does not, CANNOT, create wealth. It only can create restrictions on freedom.

Had France followed his advice and pursued economic liberty they'd be the world's superpower today, not us.

630 posted on 08/26/2003 10:59:10 AM PDT by WOSG
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