> From: Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sep 1, 2005, at 12:24 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: > > > --- Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> When threads collide... > >> > >> It occurred to me that the answer to the original question in the
> >> "Gas > >> Prices" thread was "looting," just being engaged in by > >> corporations, and > >> not individuals. > >> > >> I think that whatever punishment is meted out to individuals caught > >> looting stores ought to be brought to bear upon corporations who > >> engage > >> in looting in the form of hyper-inflated gas prices. > > > > Because obeying the law and maintaining property rights is the same > > thing as stealing things at gun point. And clearly it's a good > > idea to > > make sure that there is no incentive whatsoever for corporations to > > prevent shortages and create stockpiles. It's always reassuring to > > know > > that no matter how brutally bad the mistakes we made in the past were > > (see price controls on gasoline in the 1970s)...there are people who > > want to do it all over again. > > Hmm. I don't recall saying that. I recall saying ... well, there it is, > just above your paragraph: that if corporations engage in looting in the > form of hyper-inflationary gas prices, they should be punished as > thieves. > > I suspect that you have a strong filter through which you hear virtually > everything I say, and it is not an especially good one. > > Dave "Since when is fairness the same as centralized control?" Land Dave, libertarians believe it's OK and GOOD when the Haves and the rich trample the the Have-Nots and the Poor. Basic Libertarianism 101. ----- "How noble libertarianism, in its majestic equality, that both rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the privately owned streets (without paying), sleeping under the privately owned bridges (without paying), and coercing bread from its rightful owners!" --Anatole France "Other than telling us how to live, think, marry, pray, vote, invest, educate our children and, now, die, I think the Republicans have done a fine job of getting government out of our personal lives." _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
