GRX Dragon Posted:
How long did it take you to figure out I’m a laissez-faire Capitalist Libertarian? I go by Ayn Rand’s word 200% and then some, it shouldn’t have been THAT hard to figure out.
The fact of the matter is, as even some die-hard Socialists would admit to, is the great depression was just one part in a cycle of an ever-growing private-market economy. We’ve had similar cycles far beyond the great depression. As the person above put it, FDR’s economic policy of instituting those social programs was an error in/of itself. The people would have to pay for it, and often pay much more than through private means, and let’s not forget the illegal-ratification of the 16th amendment either-even a bigger cause to the great depression.
As Ayn Rand said:
“Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.” (Imposing an involuntarily tax-system, eg. the illegal 16th amendment.)
“Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). ” (Individuals have the right not to be taxed when not representated. Remember the Boston Tea Party? Our forefathers were not against taxation per-se, but were against any aggressive taxation and taxation without representation.)
“Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.” (If I need to explain to you what that means, I won’t: go read any of Ayn Rand’s books.)
Edit: All-n-all, if it wasn’t for the bankers of the late 19th century getting a certain group to illegally ratify the 16th amendment, big businesses wouldn’t be the problem to begin with.
Besides, no business is too big. It’s the people that’re not smart enough to endure a boycott that is the problem.
U R my hero!
