Awesome Bastiat reference at the end of the clip; ending the first segment on a great zinger. Send my regards to Mr. Stossel, ask him to do more libertarian style references. (A little Heinlein would be nice, esp. references to The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Stranger in a Strange Land.)
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Awesome Bastiat reference at the end of the clip; ending the first segment on a great zinger. Send my regards to Mr. Stossel, ask him to do more libertarian style references. (A little Heinlein would be nice, esp. references to The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Stranger in a Strange Land.)
T-Boone:
“The best wind in the world is in the United States.”
Yeah, no kidding. And right now it’s seeking rent and plunder.
Stossel deftly addresses the issue of concentrated benefits with disperse costs, although he should have emphasized it more strongly.
The $10 billion figure that Pickens throws out, works out to be about $33 per individual in the USA; call it $100 per household.
Wull, shyoot, meester! I’d be happy with only $10 outta each o’ y’all!
It is precisely this kind of death-by-a-thousand-slashes thinking that has gotten California into the mess that it is in.