Message from @Beemann
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It's the willful transfer of economic superiority from us to them by elements of our own society.
So you're owed their income?
Are they owed my income?
Sorry? I wasn't aware that not buying an iPad was punishable by death
Wut?
Meanwhile taxation is the application of force
No shit.
Government intervention is necessarily forceful
And the charge of treason for trade decisions implies that you are owed the money they have earned, in some sense
How have they earned it?
Because you paid for what they made, "you" being general
I have a product, I provide it, you buy it. That's my money now
We're not talking about the black market here.
No, we're talking about the most basic level of trade
I sell you thing for money, I use % of money to produce more of thing as efficiently as I can
The government dips into both ends to pay for security and services
I'm not interested in talking about trade in the lolbertarian state of nature.
That's how trade just works my dude, it's not libertarian magic
This is why you don't understand why people are outsourcing lol
No, trade in the real world that isn't for drugs and stolen property involves legal principles.
People are outsourcing because we allow them to.
Such as all legal trade.
"What legal principles"
"All legal trade"
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Tbh it sounds to me like you're not terribly for the principles America was built on, lad
America wasn't built on anarchy.
America was built on limited government power
How it outsourcing unprincipled?
*is
Having the government heavily regulate trade, to the point of near market control, doesn't sound like a limited government to me
If you don't want companies to outsource, don't buy outsourced products
Sounds more fascist
Taxing imports is hardly micromanaging trade.
Why should we tax imports?
Banning trade is not taxing imports
Who said anything about banning trade?
For government revenue, Make.
But are we gonna tax all trade equally?
All goods aren't equally taxable.
You directly said we shouldn't trade with the "third world" and that the current setup was the result of treason lol