The Myth of the Free Market - Mark Martinez

[mmfmmf332]

I just bought this book. It should be a good read.

[sciolibertas]

Of course we don't have a free market, we have corporatism. Try telling this to Michael Moore.

[WilhelmDrake]

Adam Smith said taxes are a "badge of liberty".

[robzrob]

The state creates the conditions for ENDLESS, ENDLESS WASTE.

[hahahaspam]

Farmers that complain about taxes aren't allowed to on a logical basis because they receive subsidies.

People who benefit from a system are not allowed to complain about the costs of that system.

A slave that gets food and shelter is not allowed to criticize the institution of slavery.

Wow, Mr. Martinez, your logic fails.

[anarkoFred]

@hahahaspam I agree, benefiting, a little or a lot, from a given regime does not implie an obligation to accept that said regime.

But I would say that argument, even fallacious maybe, raises the more general question ; would those farmers, or any other groups who criticize taxes, be coherent enough to not demand subsidies and privileges for themselves ? I'm not quite sure they would be.

[sc0pl355]

@hahahaspam The farmers are not slaves.

[x00czar00x]

@sc0pl355 The fact that anyone has to pay taxes because there American implies that we are owned.

[RussellsParadox]

@sc0pl355 *facepalm*

[x00czar00x]

@hahahaspam Agreed, he also says you have to pay taxes because you're american, but most people don't get to choose where they are born. There just born into slavery.