[ExI] Usages of the term libertarianism

[Kelly Anderson]

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:11 PM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Kelly Anderson  wrote:
> <snip>
>> I know you're a smart guy Bill. Let's keep working this through. This
>> isn't emotional for me, this is entirely rational. It is a very
>> slipper slope that the socialists have pushed us down. We can and must
>> climb out, or we will have no country at all very soon because all of
>> the rich will eventually move to China.
>>
>> The problem with Socialism is that eventually, you run out of other
>> people's money.
>
> I haven't noticed much Socialism in the US.

Really? That's pretty funny.

> >From a European POV the so-called US lefties are considered to be
> rabid right wingers.   ;)

I can't help that most European countries are more rapidly suicidal
than America.

> My view is that unregulated corporatism has bought up the government
> and looted the US economy.

One of the bigger problems with the US right now is that the corporate
tax rate is so high that they don't collect many of the taxes to which
they are properly due. This is because they drive the corporations
overseas. It is a big problem.

> The problem with creating a wealth pyramid where the top .1% own
> almost everything is that when wealth is so concentrated, the consumer
> economy game stops.

Bill, what country in the history of the world most closely
approximates your view of economic utopia?

For me, it's pretty easy.. American or England in 1800... Of course my
utopia would not have slavery.

-Kelly