tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post1665148106489176246..comments2024-03-28T04:13:36.779-04:00Comments on Mike Norman Economics: Matt Bruenig — Cutting Poverty Is Super Easy: A Response to Sumnermike normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03296006882513340747noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-36283473139030940562014-09-30T15:12:46.843-04:002014-09-30T15:12:46.843-04:00Super easy? Not until actual THINKING becomes sup...Super easy? Not until actual THINKING becomes super easy.<br /><br />It's easy to say everything's possible. Much harder to get people to actually achieve it.<br /><br />FDR said something to that effect too.Roger Ericksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17515506247888521516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-27424592244784191512014-09-30T07:56:56.572-04:002014-09-30T07:56:56.572-04:00Thanks, Tom.Thanks, Tom.Detroit Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03718490473585220856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-74707769935044319352014-09-30T07:32:00.597-04:002014-09-30T07:32:00.597-04:00Here's Paul on these people:
"But sin I ...Here's Paul on these people:<br /><br />"But <b>sin I knew not except through law</b>. For besides, I had not been aware of coveting except the law said, "You shall not be coveting."<br />8 Now <b>Sin, getting an incentive through the precept, produces in me all manner of</b> coveting. For apart from law Sin is dead." Romans 7:7<br /><br />So with these libertarian people (in scriptural terms: "sinners"), the establishment of law itself somehow can produce within them the proclivity to break said law... They cannot help themselves...<br /><br />So maybe this is why they dont want any laws? Because at some level they know that with the establishment of a law, they will then want to break the law?<br /><br />So you see the cannabis laws, then all the left-libertarians (pharma associated) are all going around wanting to use cannabis?<br /><br /> And now we are cancelling the cannabis laws while opiates remain against the law so we see a decrease in cannabis use with these people and now a strong move towards the opiates? Because the opiates remain against the law...<br /><br />Or you have anti-gun laws, then all the right-libertarians (metal associated) want to buy a full-auto conversion kit for their AR-15s? Hoard ammo? or we pass the anti-gold "money" laws so these people naturally now want gold for "money"?<br /><br />Maybe at some level they know how they function like this so therefore they dont want any laws?<br /><br />Because they know that they will then want to break those laws as soon as they are established?<br /><br />So they dont want them established in the first place?<br /><br />Tough nuts to crack for sure...<br /><br />rsp,Matt Frankohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978352335097260145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-62451760894175256142014-09-30T07:00:17.245-04:002014-09-30T07:00:17.245-04:00this is revealing from Sumner:
"That’s not t...this is revealing from Sumner:<br /><br />"That’s not to say we can’t do anything. <b>I’d eliminate all occupational licensing laws and all minimum wage laws</b> and all “welfare.” Legalize employment contracts between consenting adults. No more chronic involuntary unemployment. <b>Then I’d institute a large wage subsidy</b> for low wage jobs. "<br /><br />So at first in the para he is anti-authority (law elimination) and then somehow gets over to govt (authority) providing the wage subsidy which is the bedrock of his whole proposal...<br /><br />So he is anti-authority and then almost immediately, pro-authority.... yet seems unable to discern the contradiction here...<br /><br />This is like the story from a while back where the libertarian website was all pissed off because a postal carrier threw the mail in a dumpster... while authority is the only thing that would prevent that from happening in the first place...<br /><br />One of the first signs of intelligence is the ability to discern contradiction... The libertarian brain sure seems like scrambled eggs...<br /><br />Matt Frankohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978352335097260145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-42976037035129421812014-09-29T23:30:06.379-04:002014-09-29T23:30:06.379-04:00Me and Modern Monetary Theory
He didn't then ...<a href="http://mattbruenig.com/2013/09/13/me-and-modern-monetary-theory/" rel="nofollow">Me and Modern Monetary Theory</a><br /><br />He didn't then although he indicated interest in the post. The comments are a bit of a mish-mash.<br /><br />Don't know whether he followed up on it, but he gives no indication of being in paradigm.Tom Hickeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08454222098667643650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-53418656648740953332014-09-29T23:19:31.033-04:002014-09-29T23:19:31.033-04:00Sumner is a self-identified libertarian. Bruenig ...Sumner is a self-identified libertarian. Bruenig does a fine job of demolishing his arguments. <br /><br />I wonder where Bruenig stands with regard to MMT?Detroit Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03718490473585220856noreply@blogger.com