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[quote user="BlackSheep"]Are you kidding? Governments in poor countries in Africa and South America only have themselves to blame.[/quote]Or to take this even more bluntly, the politics and economics in these countries are merely the results of their people's mentalities, preferences and...
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[quote user="Len Budney"] [quote]The penalty for murder should be the same as it is for civil wrongful death: the full value of the life of the victim measured in money and, again as in civil wrongful death, the victim's conscious pain and suffering.[/quote] I favor the death penalty for...
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Dear all, I have a theory. I've been influenced by Ayn Rand's and Joseph Schumpeter's emphasis on entrepreneurship: that it's not really the market (as the sum of the desires of the peope) is what causes prosperity, that's rather just a resoruce like land or ore: it is those few extremely...
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[quote user="sam72"] I'm curious to know what people think about the constitutionality of the 16th amendment. There have been a lot of arguments put forth by people like Bill Benson as to how the 16th amendment was never properly ratified. On the other hand, no court has ever upheld any...
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[quote user="Inquisitor"]that crossed my mind as well - when we say "corruption", what is meant specifically? It's a rather vaguely defined notion.[/quote] When speaking of corruption, the speed cop giving not giving a ticket, because he got a hundred Rand as a "bribe"...
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[quote user="Inquisitor"] It also doesn't pay a corporation to keep corrupt elements though, does it? [/quote] Not in my opinion. It doesn't pay the government, associations and firms to have corruption inside its ranks or to deal with that kind of people. Not ion the long run at least...
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[quote user="MedicalMencken"] That politicians tend toward corruption is virtually axiomatic ... free to invade the freedoms of their citizenries with impunity. [/quote] Excellent topic, MM, because corruption is increasing in every aspect of public life. For three years now I have been living...
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[quote user="Anonymous Coward"] I was reading about the currency situation in Somalia a while back and they still use the local currency even though it isn't backed by a central government. They still have inflation though because the forces who wish to re-establish a State get currency...
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[quote user="MedicalMencken"]That politicians tend toward corruption is virtually axiomatic; given a literal monopoly on the legitimate use of force and total control and ownership of the court system, governments and the people who run them are disturbing free to invade the freedoms of their...