Re: Eminent Domain Abuse

royls_at_telus.net
Date: 03/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 04:53:22 GMT

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 18:24:58 -0800, "David Schwartz"
<davids@webmaster.com> wrote:

>"Mark Monson" <m_monson@ztech.com> wrote in message
>news:5AsXd.13084$6g7.1806@bignews1.bellsouth.net...
>
>>> That's 100% the wrong question.
>
>> It seems a most relevant question. You say taxing land values is a bad
>> idea. That
>> leads me to assume you have a better idea of what to tax.
>
> If I say the government building car factories in Dallas is a good idea,
>it follows I know where the government should build car factories?

No, it follows that you at least have an opinion you are not too
embarrassed to share.

>> I'm not after particular results but
>>> particular processes.
>
>> Ok. So what you tax?
>
> You are effectively asking me, if I was the czar of a governmental car
>manufacturing system, what cars would I build and where would I build them.

Those seem like good questions for a prospective car czar.

>If I had that power, I'd destroy such a centralized system and replace it
>with a free market one.

OK. We know free markets in cars work pretty well.

Say we had LVT. What would you replace LVT with?

>>> If we had a state monopoly in car building and I
>>> proposed a free market, would you ask me how I would build a car? What
>>> steel I would buy? Where I would the facvtories? How much I would pay my
>>> employees?
>
>> I might ask you all kinds of things but first I want to know what you
>> would tax.
>
> I would object to any system where those determinations were made in
>that manner.

?? What manner? Asking people what they think?

> You might as well say to a slave, "well, if you object to slavery, how
>would you run the cotton plantation". It's perfectly acceptable for him to
>say "without slaves".

Sure. But that doesn't get the cotton produced.

>He doesn't have to explain some other profitable way
>to operate a plantation.

Right. But somebody better. And his lack of alternative ideas would
be a good reason to ignore his input until he can think of something
meaningful to contribute on the subject.

>If there is none, there should be no plantations.

OK, so you _are_ an anarcho-moron. Have a nice day.

-- Roy L

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