----- Original Message ----- From: "John Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Some examples would be raising taxes for a national health care plan, > barring > a new store from being built on private property, banning short-sales of > stock, > raising the minimum wage, import/export tariffs, banning internet > gambling, > restricting offshoring, supporting a bailout of the financial industry > using taxpayer > money, windfall profit taxes, price ceilings on gasoline, repealing NAFTA, > farm > subsidies, banning smoking, trans-fats, etc....I could go on, but that > will do for > now. By the way, I do not mean to imply that you support these practices. > I am > only giving examples. I would argue that the above are part of the detail of a consensual deal between and individual and a state, and therefore part of a meta free market. I am a citizen of Australia, and I have been issued a passport, and am free to move to and live in any other country I wish, providing of course I can come to a mutually agreeable arrangement with that country. That agreement would include abiding the laws of that country. If I moved to the US (which I wouldn't) part of the deal I would strike with the government would be to accept say bans on short selling of stick if the government decided that was a good idea, so in the end everything above is part of a free market. Regards, Wayne. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
