Friday, July 23, 2004

What is hard to understand?
What is so hard to understand about the power of State-absence? Why is it hard to understand how regulations are restricting for individuals and companies, how taxes interfere with the free market and all its wonders, and how government-interference creates uncertainties, makes good decisions look bad and bad decisions look good?

The Left is obsessed with learning nothing from history and ignoring all good logic. They fight against international free trade. Why? Because it might mean they lose control over their local job markets and undermine their authority to design and shape society into their ideal picture. Why do Leftists predict catastrophes when humanity uses a lot of this resource and a little of another resource? Because they have no knowledge of the free market, and how prices, supplies and demand work (or at least refuse to apply this knowledge in the real world). Why do Leftists insist on keeping resources in the hands of the government? Because they don't see the big picture when it comes to responsibility and profit-seeking - something that the free market understands very well.

When it comes down to it, Leftism is basically obsessed with ideas that don't rely on logic or experience. Most of the criticism on the free market is based on examples which again are mostly bad because of government interference and not the lack thereof. This I have said again and again and I will say it again and again. This was written in the 18th century by promoters of Laissez faire and has repeated it ever since. History has taught Leftist at best that some government interference is bad, and that some free market ideas are basically better for the general public than a lack of them. Bad ideas like Communism have been swept away and others will meet their end, but unfortunately new ones are continually being bred in the hoax-laboratories of the Left.

I don't see what is so hard to understand. I can understand those who doubt the free market when they hear of private companies polluting air, water and land because its not always obvious that the reason is in most cases a lack of responsibility and private property-rights. I can understand many worrying about the poor and their access to health care, housing and general good living because its not always obvious that the State is in most cases to blame for its continuous promises of providing for the needy in exchange for brutal tax burdens on the public. But in general I don't understand doubts about free trade, the power of the private enterprise and the lack of politicians to control humans like a farmer controls its sheep. I seriously lack the understanding.

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