Rex,
I agree in general, but the fish example is a little misplaced. A few
Individual Transferable Quotas--ITQs exist in US fisheries and there are many
more proposals to extend their use in over harvested (most of them) US
fisheries. New Zealand has an extensive system. They are an example of
market-based management of open access resources.
These do get reported in the popular media from time to time, but usually only
after our friend Senator Stevens (Alaska) turns them down.
rex wrote:
I've seen many stories about government attempts to stop price gouging and
none even hinted that there was another side, that gouging was good, that
anti-gouging laws shouldn't exist, that they defeat market pricing, or that
the laws caused problems.
I've seen many stories about seafood being overharvested and need more
government laws to limit takes, and never seen any mention that the problem
was government ownership of water, defeating supply and demand incentives,
soggy socialism, and the need for private property rights that would enable
farming and market pricing. (if that wasn't bad enough I rarely see stories
on farming of seafood, and they NEVER make the tie in to the lack of
property rights in water that cause overharvesting in government water. It
is unfortunate that (I believe) even the seafood farmers can't make the tie
in, coming from government schools). I have never seen a seafood farmer on
land suggest that he should be able to own areas now owned by government in
order to farm in water owned by government, I have never seen a reporter ask
such a question).
I've seen many stories about water conservation and watering restrictions
even including police state patrols and enforcement, and never seen even a
hint that the problem was government ownership, lack of competition, lack of
market pricing, defeating supply and demand, that would eliminate all the
coverage made by the reporter in his socialist story.
those are 3 easy ones I see a lot. I could go on and on. You've inspired
me to ask the list serve participants to compile a collection. Please send
in more examples of media blindness about capitalism, free market economics,
pricing, property rights, which all prove that the first amendment is
incompatible with government schools, and the latter must end. I swear it
seems our schools accomplish exactly what soviet schools accomplished. the
media prove that government schools produce socialists who know nothing
about free market economics.
