To: Neil Peart
Preventing trade means that we use more resources to produce less wealth. But it can shift the remaining wealth from the population as a whole to one identifiable group. Concentrated benefits, diffuse costs.
2 posted on
10/12/2009 12:54:47 PM PDT by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The People have abdicated our duties; ... and anxiously hope for just two things: bread and circuses)
To: Neil Peart
5 posted on
10/12/2009 1:06:15 PM PDT by
NonValueAdded
("The President has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet. " Steyn)
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