Thursday, October 12, 2017

Public Enemy #1 - - The State

Walter Block responds to criticism of the free market model of criminal punishment.  This oft-stated criticism cites the many inequities such as discrimination against the poor, racism, sexism and other prejudices.  Block highlights the real culprit in these consequential inequities – the State, and not free enterprise.   He aptly illustrates his point through segregated busing in the civil rights era.  Why didn’t free enterprise rise up to offer blacks an alternative to being forced to ride in the back of the bus?  Nope.  The State itself precluded in through Jim Crow Laws denying such permits. 
The enemy is the State, and not free markets.  Quite the polar opposite, the answer to our problems lies NOT in the State, but in the free market. 

How many people in America know the US army is now targeting Russian military personnel?  The enemy is the State.

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