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Statistical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-22-10 07:43 AM
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46. It would be more efficient for each actor to purchase everything themselves?
Really? What a bogus argument.

We collectively fund things like Police, military, roads because it is far more efficient to have a single entity funded by all actors then each individual contract it out.

You seem to think free markets or maybe 'free-er' markets is a better term can't exist inside a government. That somehow it has to be pure anarchy. That simply is false.

Smith indicated that govts (or some as of yet undiscovered 3rd party) are necessary specifically because free markets can't exist without protection from violence, fraud, monopolies, and coercion.

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