(November 6, 2017 at 6:29 pm)Wololo Wrote:(November 6, 2017 at 4:49 pm)shadow Wrote: What do you have against Rand Paul? He's always been one of my favorite American politicians, definitely my favorite Republican.
Why, he couldn't run a lemon juice stall if you gave him the ownership of all the lemons in the world and a $1tn seed capital, he's that dumb.
What was his plan for being president, getting rid of government and letting the rich lord over the rest of us as their slaves? Yeah like that'd work, for about five minutes.
What specifically do you think would the problem with eliminating government? What comes to mind for me, in broad terms, is
a) businesses will externalize environmental and social costs of their practices (such as carbon emissions, safety standards for employees).
b) lack of protection of individual and property rights
c) large corporations using their money to engage in predatory competition (ie. using their capital to kill potential competitors before these smaller corporations have a chance to establish themselves). This is related to rich people using their money to keep poor people down, even intergenerationally.
d) a lack of conventions that benefit people at large and should be enforced (such as drivers licensing or laws against littering)
e) no funding or valuation of societal goods without a clear monetary value (such as the value of biodiversity - it's hard to reduce these kinds of things to a formula)
I think addressing those issues is the role of government - it takes a lot of regulation to have a functioning market economy. But ultimately I do agree with leavig most thing to the market and minimizing government, which is why on that issue I agree with Rand Paul.
