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To: VRWC_minion
"We need gov't to create property and protect property rights. "

And you have come full circle! Now you need the government to protect property rights, when the business owner wants to allow smoking on their private property you think the government should take their rights!

Now to address your post: Individuals to enforce every transaction, that is the entire premise of a transaction. One thing of value is traded for another thing of value. Have you ever heard of bartering?

The government does not create property and an individual can protect their property better than any government agency. The government doesn't provide a framework in which transactions occur and they don't do any enforcing. The framework is provided by two or more parties agreeing to specified terms trading items or services of value. The only thing the government provides a framework for is the confiscation of some of that value from all the parties involved for the government budget.

Removing government intervention from business would grow business exponentially and we would see more new products on the market and creativity would once again be rewarded.

I don't see what removing government intervention and returning to a free market has to do with libertarianism.

You are digging the bigger government hole deeper with every post you make. I suggest you actually take an econ course at your local CC.
265 posted on 10/20/2003 12:04:48 PM PDT by CSM (Congrats to Flurry and LE!)
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To: CSM
I don't have the time to handle each one of your statements which are based on ignorance of the structure of govt'. You miss that the state is soveriegn and you miss that your property rights are enforced under the laws of the state without which you cannot enforce your contracts.

Evenif you barter item A for item B. Without the gov't the person who gave you item B can take it back if his gun is bigger than yours.

278 posted on 10/20/2003 12:12:36 PM PDT by VRWC_minion (Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
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