Argentina elects libertarian president Javier Milei - Update: Netherlands

Doesn't feel like it at all.

• Opened up first during Covid, while California was still stuck in a loop of useless, evil, authoritarian lockdowns.
• Much lower taxes than California (hint: higher taxes give government bureaucrats more power)
• "Censorship" - not at all, unless you insist on distributing p*rn to small children.
• Cancel culture? I don't see it, at all. When I see people making pig noises in San Francisco when a Jewish relative of October 7th victims speaks...yeah, that's evil.

 

Thanks for your in-depth analysis, as usual.

 

Anything is better than communism.

There is no "pure" system that executes 100 % of any economic theory, really. But what I observe is that governments across the world have become more authoritarian and that bureaucracies keep growing. It's inherent in their nature. If you don't do anything to correct it, the ratio of public spending vs. GDP will only keep going up and up and up and up, forever. Because bureaucrats always want to feed themselves first.

So the pendulum needs to swing back to more economic freedom and allowing entrepreneurship to thrive.

Free markets are better than communism.

All these statements are directional, and not absolute.

I do have an MBA from a school that is famous for favouring free market economics.

So I probably spent more time on the subject at large than you have - but I will not pretend to be familiar with all nuances of anarcho-capitalism.

But if a clearly intelligent guy like Milei says reading some of Rothbard's stuff influenced him greatly, it piques my interest.

 

Higher government expenditure and taxes do not equate to higher safety and security for citizens.

See: Oakland, San Francisco, New York.

 

lol

 

Trigger alert for our resident commies:

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