The War the Government Cannot Win
Ludwig von Mises said that the great accomplishment of economists was to draw attention to the extreme limits on the power of government. His point was not merely that government should be limited, but that it is limited by the very structure of reality. It cannot make all people rich by its own initiative. It cannot provide universal housing, literacy, and health. It cannot raise wages across the board. It cannot ban products. Those who seek to accomplish economic ends such as these are choosing the wrong means. That is because there is something more powerful than government: namely economic law.
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http://www.mises.org/story/2567
there is no such thing as economic law - it's a farce.
Supply and demand never really works in reality - it's riddled with defects caused by monopolies, lack of information, fraud, etc.
the government can't do any of the things that is mentioned in this article simply because it's been hijacked by a bunch of greedy, supremacist monopolists and none of these things are on their agenda.
Of course, wealth will never be equally distributed, no matter what anyone does - nor should it be - but, if the government was not in the business of creating monopolies and facilitating extortion and exploitation, then disparities in wealth would NEVER be as vast as they are now.
The solution is not just limited government - but a government based on JUST laws - laws that do not favor one group of people over all others - namely BANKERS and capitalists over WORKERS.
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"Money" has no value - people do.
“There is something more powerful than government: namely economic law.”
I agree. Economic laws are more powerful than government, and private central bankers dictate economic laws.
“Government cannot make all people rich by its own initiative.”
No, but it can facilitate general enterprise. Today’s government seeks to facilitate enterprise among the rich only.
Like almost all economic tracts, this article overlooks a simple fact…WE MUST NOT HAVE PRIVATE CENTRAL BANKS !
Unless we face that fact, we will have endless chatter about nothing, while the central bankers get richer at our expense.
It’s like trying to discuss Middle East politics while not being allowed to mention israel.
Absurd.