Originally Posted By: SonnyBlackstein
Originally Posted By: Faithful1
The Republicans are not against ALL regulation, but are against OPPRESSIVE regulation and OVER REGULATION.


Pointless rhetoric. What party or political theory is in favour of OPPRESSIVE and OVER REGULATION?

You may as well say the republicans stand for good things and are against bad.

Originally Posted By: Faithful1
On the Mafia being capitalist, I would disagree with that too. How is the Mafia in any sense free market? Lying, deception, fraud, cheating, threatening, bullying, robbing and murdering are not capitalist.


None of these things are Democrat either. None of these things are ANY political philosophy.


Originally Posted By: Faithful1
Having a criminal street tax is free market? Aren't Republicans known for wanting to lower taxes? This in itself contradicts your claim.


A street Tax is no Tax at all. It is simple extortion.
The purpose of Tax is to maintain public infrastructure, services, the military etc. The Mafia's 'Tax' serves zero public service and is no more a tax than in name. So this doesn't contradict any claim whatsoever.

Originally Posted By: Faithful1
However, criminal violence is never capitalist or free market.


Nor is it a political philosophy.

Originally Posted By: Faithful1
In a free market there have to be a rational and moral set of rules that people/the market follows.


A free market SIMPLY and ONLY means the the economics of supply and demand determine market forces.
It has nothing to do with rationale and certainly any moral set of rules.




Thanks to Pizzaboy for bringing this forgotten link to our attention.

Anyway, to respond to Sonny Blackstein's rant, nothing he wrote really disagrees with what I wrote earlier. I was writing about politically biased mischaracterizations put out by getthesenets, but Blackstein seems to think it was some sort of personal attack, which it wasn't. Pointing out facts is not pointless rhetoric.

Last edited by Faithful1; 07/07/14 02:25 PM.