Re: Sen. Harry Reid, NV: Wildfires caused by global warming

On Oct 27, 1:21 am, Simon S Aysdie <gwh...@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 26, 1:42 am, bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:

And it happens that some of the goods provided by the government are
worth having.

No one has a clue regarding "worth" if the government interferes. The
government destroys/distorts the /price system/, which is the only
possible way to gain a hint of a given population's "values." Even
Lange new that. (And "a given population" is a fiction anyway.)

So it is really missing the point, for example, to say: People value
education, therefore education should be provided by government. So
should socks and bread, I guess.

Selling education doesn't work quite the same way as selling socks and
bread.

If you can't see the difference, your opinion isn't worth attending
to.

<snip>

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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