Milton Friedman - Socialism is Force

Milton Friedman discusses the moral values encouraged by economic systems and explains that a primary difference between capitalism and socialism is the difference between free choice and compulsory force. http://www.LibertyPen.com

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[Paladin1983PL]

Americans! RON PAUL offers you freedom!

[zachmealer]

@jmitterii2 Government is force, not economics -economics is just exchange and development, and as long as there's no coercion, there's no force -only mutual benefit.

[katakisLives]

@TheStormPulse What about massive highways that span the entire nation? that kind of scale needs to be planned from the centre! this guy seems to have a very Darwinist idea of how society should function! don't be poor and never lose you job otherwise you're stuffed

[TheStormPulse]

@katakisLives no. Milton is not an anarchist. He wants low taxes to pay for police, courts, military, elections - only the expenses necessary to uphold liberty itself. Streets would be privatized - so if you want to live far out in the countryside - build your own road. If you want to dump your garbage in the lake, you ask the lake owner first - cause lakes would be private, and he would probably say no - because the fisherman will pay more to him for keeping the lake clean.

[TheStormPulse]

In the US today, however, it is the capitalists who must use the force of their bribed goverment to protect the wealth they stole (resources abroad and bailout money at home). Socialism is force, and capitalism today is socialism for the rich. Ron Paul is the answer - or a second American revolution.

[katakisLives]

I'd be interested to see what society would look like if these teachings were taken to there logical conclusion! never mind about just healthcare and SS! is he suggesting that government take no taxes at all? there goes the police the army etc! who's gonna pick up the garbage? repair the streets and other national infrastructure? everything's falling apart! oh well at least I don't need to worry about socialism!

[PoliticsStudent]

Socialism means that the workers own the means of production. In what way does a system where the government owns and controls everything resemble a socialist system? From the perspective of the worker, what is the difference between the capitalist owner and the government owner? How is economic democracy equated to force, but political democracy isn't?

[rehwr]

@aussieconservative ya, I'd rather shove a fork in my eye than read the US tax code, and I'm American!

[magicthunder666]

RON PAUL

[rationaleconomy]

@aussieconservative I have no idea what your point is and I don't think you do either. I was responding to the simple error that the US taxes less than any other nation in the world. Simply not true, and not even close. And Bermuda? Tax haven for the wealthy? Have you been there? It's a tax haven for ALL. Ask the folks working in the hotels if the rich are the only ones that don't pay tax (tax is about 6%), or do they too get to keep their money?

[neilvokey]

The way he talks about the 'taxman' and other Gov't institutions as a coercive force, you'd think he was denouncing the nation state, not just socialism.