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I like to search the web for articles about the free market. Articles which are written in defense of the market are fairly easy to filter out. The articles (and sites) arguing against the free market sometimes rely on sleight-of-hand. It’s really kind of boring. You would think people who hate freedom would come up with better arguments. Perhaps there aren’t any.

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I ran across this site while researching free markets and just couldn’t wait to read it. It seems that it was not corruption or bad engineering which broke the levees in New Orleans. It was the free market. People didn’t die because they relied on the ever fallible government. They died because of free markets.
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In a recent debate, a free market detractor described libertarians as the “free market is infallible crowd.” Infallible means something is incapable of failing, but it also implies that failure and success are meaningful descriptions of the subject. Free markets cannot fail or succeed. Since there is no goal to a free market, there is no way to measure success or failure and those two results do not apply.
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I ran across this statement on a discussion board about public education.

I am so sick of hearing the complaints about compulsory education.

Perhaps we could regulate debate. Everyone could pay a certain amount of debate tax each year. Certain stances could be limited by debate tax penalties and other stances could be encouraged through debate tax exemption of debate tax credits.
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While researching the early history of U.S. labor, I ran across this page which has an excellent list of historical labor events. Unfortunately, the author, allen lutins (he prefers all lowercase), makes a fundamental error most free market opponents make.
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I often see quotes about rights which make this assumption.

You have the right to produce goods and the production of those goods may create pollution. I, on the other hand, have the right to breathe clean air. These conflicts are resolved by creating rules and regulations with respect to such pollution.

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Let’s say I rob a group of rich people and then use the money to save victims dying of a famine. Did I do a good thing or a bad thing? Ethically, the ends should never justify the means. I cannot justify robbing some people to aid others. It is up to those wealthy people to decide to aid the others. I cannot do good by robbing any one.
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I have heard many arguments for a minimum wage. A minimum wage is a wage which is big enough to live on say some. A minimum wage helps the poor some plead. At least one business owner says she would always pay above minimum wage and every other business owner should support her point of view.
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I apologize for high fuel prices. It’s my fault. You see, I tend to shop at one location as I get accustomed to the people or the service. I frequent a particular grocery store, a particular florest, a particular printer, and a particular gas station.
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Some farm subsidy myths are dispelled by Karl Beitel in US Farm Subsidies and the Farm Economy: Myths, Realities, Alternatives. Frankly, I didn’t know about the myths so the article was informative from both the discovery of the myths and from reading why they were myths.
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