tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467119.post5939418818603609066..comments2023-10-24T10:09:22.146+01:00Comments on The Yorkshire Ranter: that's not noise, that's the sound of freedom - oh, by the way, I voted LibertarianAlexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17153530634675543954noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467119.post-64499674594989057092009-11-07T18:02:47.789+01:002009-11-07T18:02:47.789+01:00I think of taxes as the equivalent of rent. Don&#...I think of taxes as the equivalent of rent. Don't like the rent you're paying? Go someplace else where the rent is cheaper. Of course that means you might end up living in some isolated place, or a hovel.<br /><br />As for the claim that private enterprise is always more efficient than government I wonder if any of those making the claim have actually ever worked for a large private company. Anyone who has will have stories about the things head office wants you do that don't make sense, like opening your outlet at a time in the morning you'll get no customers.tim gueguenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15254365031507896541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467119.post-35660803142943753232009-10-28T18:05:58.154+01:002009-10-28T18:05:58.154+01:00The most decisive refutation of what is commonly k...The most decisive refutation of what is commonly known as "libertarian" philosophy is that <a href="http://geolib.com/essays/sullivan.dan/royallib.html" rel="nofollow">delivered by followers of the work of Henry George</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467119.post-82859271267664516672009-10-27T09:30:08.838+01:002009-10-27T09:30:08.838+01:00Two things.
First, "libertarian" was f...Two things. <br /><br />First, "libertarian" was first used by the left in 1858. The appropriate by the free-market right is relatively recent, since the 1950s in America.<br /><br /><a href="http://anarchism.pageabode.com/afaq/150-years-of-libertarian" rel="nofollow">150 years of libertarian</a><br /><br />Second, the propertarians (a far better term than "libertarian" for these people) are unaware that their arguments against the state planning are equally applicable to the large capitalist firms they support. Workplace hierarchies are just as destructive to information gathering and processing as state ones.<br /><br />If they took liberty seriously and followed through their own arguments logically, they would support workers' self-management. But, instead, they think freedom should stop at the workplace door and think that huge companies are more economically efficient than the smallest state just because the former is a company and the later is a state...<br /><br />Iain<br /><a href="http://www.anarchistfaq.org.uk" rel="nofollow">An Anarchist FAQ</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467119.post-36840219746268336222009-10-22T06:18:02.489+01:002009-10-22T06:18:02.489+01:00Come on, we know what the sound of freedom is. And...Come on, we know what the sound of freedom is. And that ain't it. <br />http://livetoad.blogspot.com/2004/04/so-why-dont-i-hear-any-freedom-around.htmlShitheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17344573277078416570noreply@blogger.com