Nice logical fallacy.
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It's funny (in a bad way) the ubiquity of people (even many Christians) who think that Jesus was a leftist and taught leftist ideas.
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This cannot be emphasized too much.
The free market is all about mutual exchange for mutual benefit!
It's really sad that so many people do not understand the interference by the government (at the behest of lobbyists etc) that corrupts this simple principle.
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So how to correct---out law lobbyists? Or make sure no legislator can act as a lobbyist for 10 years after leaving office? Get rid of Citizens United decision that allowed much more $ into politics. Make political campaigns limited to 6 weeks?
Are you in favor of no govt regulation at all? No SEC, FCC, EPA? Just let the markets take care of everything??
What about the "interference" of government on behalf of the public? How would we get that to work?
You get the government out of everything that it has no business being in.
The government's only responsibilities should be to protect the rights of humans (criminal code), and to provide and maintain infrastructure (code of use).
That's it.
Get rid of everything else the government does currently, and let people do what they want, so long as they aren't committing a crime.
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The only reason that lobbying works in the first place is that lobbyists can get the government to make things difficult for their competitors, etc.
This is why large corporations actually love regulations, since those regulations are a very heavy load on smaller companies, whereas the large corporations can handle them.
Yes, all of these groups make things more difficult and expensive. Those three letter departments are all coercive and corrupt.
YES!! People are not so stupid as you think.
That's hilarious. Like what?
Let's try it and find out!
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So, no FCC. who gets to decide who gets certain frequencies to broadcast radio on?
No SEC, so wild west for stock offerings?
No EPA so anyone can dump whatever they want in water, no one needs to bother to clean emissions from smoke stakes?
Just trying to get a handle on what you would like the end result to be.
No SEC, so wild west for stock offerings?
No EPA so anyone can dump whatever they want in water, no one needs to bother to clean emissions from smoke stakes?
Just trying to get a handle on what you would like the end result to be.
so, how do you prevent, say fraud in the stock market? any law would have to be at least as detailed as current regulations, no?
How do you prevent people or business from polluting air and water in an attempt to make their business bottom line healthier?
It would require a fundamental change in form of government. The current system is based entirely too much on theft.
As for government regulation, there is no need for the SEC, FCC, EPA and other things like it. There should be laws against fraud and other forms of theft (and other things like assault, murder, etc); laws that have real consequences that actually suit the crime, which in turn would create a mostly self-governing society like that which this country had at its founding. Freedom works for a righteous people with a just criminal justice system. The more unjustly the country treats criminals, the more immoral its society. The more immoral the society, the less free it can be and survive because the immoral leads to death - by definition.
Actually, the simpler the law, the easier it is to enforce.
"Thou shalt not steal" covers most, if not all, forms of financial fraud.
The complexity of current regulations often obscures accountability rather than promoting it. A just legal system should rely on clear moral principles applied consistently. Specific cases, like insider trading or accounting deception, would be resolved through case law, where courts determine whether the action constitutes theft or fraud based on precedent. Over time, this builds a body of decisions without requiring a massive regulatory bureaucracy.
The solution is simple: Make polluters pay to clean it up!
Deliberately releasing harmful substances into the air or water is, in effect, a physical assault on everyone in the community. The law should treat it as such. Instead of preemptively regulating every possible form of emission, we should define basic principles, like the duty not to harm others, and let courts determine what constitutes "unreasonable harm" based on evidence and precedent within a judicial system where the judges are held accountable for their decisions.
Radio frequency regulation is infrastructure. Could there be a specific section of the government dedicated to it? Perhaps.
Free market.
Dumping toxic waste would result in harming someone. They would then have a criminal case, and the government would get involved to bring justice.
Otherwise, things like park maintenance and environmental protection would fall under infrastructure.
Clete answered for me sufficiently for your quote of my post.
We stopped being moral and just and self-governing when we stopped enforcing punishments like the death penalty and public flogging for crimes.
Why do you bother with such stupidity? Who is it that you're trying to convince with this drivel?
When you ask an honest question we can continue.
It's pure cope.
Mercury from coal fired power plants is a pollutant that, for example, can make its way into the fish we eat.
Someone here just suggested simple laws are easier to enforce
Simple law—no mercury allowed to be admitted by coal fired power plants.
that work for you?
See your post #30. You raised the drivel
This is simple law:
America’s Criminal Code | KGOV.com
| Judges will flog those guilty of assault and impose restitution for lost income and medical expenses (Ex. 21:18-19), and for permanent injury also require an eye for an eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, life for life (Lev. 24:19-20). Judges will carry out all corporal and capital punishments swiftly and painfully, within twenty-four hours of conviction; and limit floggings to forty blows (Deut. 25:1-3; Lev. 24:19-20; 19:16-21; 1 Pet. 2:20). |
The law you suggested is too specific, and only applicable to coal power plants.
The DNC, and their ally Speaker Johnson won't pass those laws.
To expound, liberty ends when people are hurt. Consent isn't the standard.