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States are immune from lawsuits. Otherwise the entire US house and Senate would be sued for stealing the social security funds after having "fixed" the under funding problem by raising the tax rate in the rearly '80's I would guess that would make a financial scandal many times greater than...

The big corporations/hedge funds/etc are the ones who move the market, if you're trying to take money from them you are most likely getting run over. The robin hood analogy DOES NOT apply.

but they aren't "forced" to buy that useless shit like they are forced to pay for the useless shit coming out of washington.

I've thought the very same thing many times. I'm constantly amazed at the socialist rhetoric coming from people who consider themselves traders.

Balance would be a good thing if it happened naturally, but trying to force it upon people through government regulation will never work. Politicians are not smart enough to see the unintended consequences of their actions and unless government is VERY LIMITED they will be constantly creating...

This is the point I was trying to make, if you have government officials being paid off then you are not talking about a free market because government officials are given power to force decisions upon people. Before the income tax was instituted in 1913 I do believe what you have a good...

First, let me just say that my conclusions here will obviously be theoretical since there has never been a truly free-market capitalist society. But if there were, no one would have the power to force you to spend your money on any particular purpose. I believe the problem with government is...

How could big pharma & healthcare possible prevent disease? If individuals don't take responsibility for their own health there is nothing anyone can do to prevent them from getting sick. I agree that a lot of nutritional supplements are useless. I used to take quite a bit and now I just...

There has never been a truly capitalist society, so you can't say that it creates monopolies & oligopolies. Those are usually the result of government involvment, such as laws that restrict competition and "protect" industries.

That's an excellent article on mises.org, thanks for the link. And I admit I wasn't thinking about federally mandated spending at the state level when I posted that prior info. Although if you match that data with data about the amount of pork spending per state I think the results are...

What do you mean by net contributor? I'm unaware of any state tax revenue that gets diverted to the federal government. And it doesn't matter what the money is being spent on. My point is that you pay federal taxes to pay for the federal government and state taxes to pay for the state...

Here is a spreadsheet showing federal money going to the states for state programs. Cutting this out would pay for most of the current deficit. I can think of no logical excuse why state programs should be paid for by the federal government...

No harm done. I could have phrased that post better to get my point across. However, according to the American Heritage Dictionary I did not misuse the word, although I did fail to capitalize it. Most of the things on your list only help people in local areas and should not be funded by the...

I know what communism is, do you? Communism 1. A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people. How...

What are you , a communist? Why does this industry need to be regulated? Why can't people be responsibile for there own actions and make educated decisions on what they consume in their own body? more government does not solve problems it only creates them.

That's ridiculous. Prevention entails consumers taking responsibility for their own health. Most people don't do that. In addition, when they do get sick they want the symptoms to go away and aren't concerned with why they got sick in the first place. By the way, there definitely is...

SOCIALISM = MASSIVE WASTE OF RESOURCES I think greed is created by the government constanty stealing 1/3 - 1/2 of your income and wasting it.

If technology replaces human labor, that means the human labor was mindless anyway, as that would be the only way a machine could do the job. I see the point you are trying to make and it is pertinent to a single country. But borders are fictious lines drawn in the sand by politicians. The...

The owners of the technology are not the only ones to gain. What about the consumers who purchase the products at a lower price? For any company there are many more consumers than employees so by utiltizing technology to lower the cost of the products the business is benefiting the most people.

Don't point fingers where they don;t belong. The US healthcare system is most certainly not a FREE market. The bungling politicians are to blame for the current US mess. I was in Spain last year and noticed that even though they have socialized medicine that there are also private...