Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] why our economy is a mess

[Jack Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 18:44 -0600, Mike Miller wrote:

> Did you read the article?  You should probably read it.

It requires registation and I don't particularly feel like going out and
make my 57th disposable web e-mail account to register. I'll read it if
you post it here or somewhere else that doesn't guarantee me getting
endless ads for Viagra and penis-enhancement supplies in my inbox.

> Who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Econ and for what?

Obviously not that op-ed piece...

> You just don't know anything.

You should know better than to make blanket statements in debates. All I
have to do is show that I know *one* thing and I win this debate. I'll
even limit it to economics as that is what we were discussing. All
right, here goes: a price floor is ineffective if the free-market price
is above the price floor.

Also, there is usually no way to prove one policy opnion is better than
another as it is usually impossible to implement both of them in
identical situations. That would require parallel universes, or at least
parallel Earths. Last time I checked, we did not have those.

--Jack


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