Should the government add or increase tariffs on products imported into the country?
Liberty in all economic transactions, minimisation of force, taxation, and regulation. That's why I'm free trade.
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Bureaucracy happens far more often in the private sector already, that’s kinda just a given, because market is literally just micro-planning between businesses based on guessing most of the time. Bureaucrats already plan economic moves, they’re just not government ones. Private property rights in general weren’t meant for you, over 90% of the population won’t be affected in the slightest if it just suddenly disappeared. You’re against government getting involved in the bureaucracy that already exists to pursue national interests instead of business ones, which I find laughable considering business interests often run differently, or in complete opposition to the needs of the people and the nation at large.
The difference between government and business is that government has political power – the legal privilege of using force on innocent people – and private organisations do not. Businesses must use voluntary means to persuade you to buy their products – government can just create a law saying you MUST buy their services (via taxation) and then plunder your money if you refuse to fork it over, bind you hand and foot, and lock you in a cage for however long they please. Government is a criminal cartel controlled by some of the worst specimens of humanity who have been corrupted because of this evil and unnatural power. It is because it is so evil that I want to minimise political power by minimising government.
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And the power of companies, businesses, and capitalism itself is far higher, while being far more discrete. Businesses grow overtime with little restraint from the outside, amassing a gigantic amount of indirect power. They may not be able to force you to buy a product, but they can kill the competition, ramp up prices overtime, and essentially make their product the only product available in that sector. Government merely assists in these companies getting this kind of power, but it’s also the only thing strong enough to defend against those forces in an industry. If capital interests… Read more
No it's not, and I just told you precisely why. Businesses can't send people with guns to your house to cart you off to a cage for the rest of your life is you refuse to be plundered by them. But you chose to ignore that point, it seems ...
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Yes, direct power, very scary and loud, I’m aware of it, but I recognize the power of indirect action in this kind of system. Companies don’t need to send you to prisons, there’s always other customers, and most of the big companies form into bigger and bigger ones that own more and more industry until avoiding them is literally impossible, meaning you’d have to starve or lack that entire service in order to avoid that company, essentially making your dependence on them absolute and immovable. If you try to break those companies up as one person, they’ll mercile… Read more
