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Re:The Two Flaws Of Libertarian Economics by cchooper on Thursday January 08, 2009 @06:11AM (#424753)
Maybe his point is that the amount of government required to protect rights is actually quite large. There's a general assumption in Libertarianism that it would be small, and he's disputing this.
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Re:The Two Flaws Of Libertarian Economics by mightybyte on Thursday January 08, 2009 @11:01AM (#425050)
This argument is actually interesting, but I didn't get the slightest hint that it was what Zed was really talking about.
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Re:The Two Flaws Of Libertarian Economics by cchooper on Thursday January 08, 2009 @02:36PM (#425485)
It's probably not, but it would make sense of why he describes libertarians as "corporatist". He's driving a wedge between small government and the defence of natural rights, and assuming that libertarians would choose the former over the latter.
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