Re:Nepal's Ban on Production and Use of Plastic Bags Comes i...
by TruthAndDare on Sunday July 17, 2016 @07:01PM
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> deny economic coercion applies when e.g a bank charges overdraft or late fees no matter how ludicrous.
That would depend entirely on whether the bank and its customer had agreed upon it before hand or not, wouldn't you say?
Re:Nepal's Ban on Production and Use of Plastic Bags Comes i...
by infinite8s on Sunday July 17, 2016 @02:23PM
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Also most free market adherents opposed to government coercion forget that contractual obligations are only enforceable through government coercion (unless they would like to go back to the time of private armies).
There is a suggestion that ultimately a bank doesn't put you in jail, where governments can do that if you continue to not pay fines. But increasingly governments take unpaid fines from income tax refunds or other mechanisms for collection rather than consider outstanding fines a criminal offense rather than civil.