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Originally Posted by DalekSec
What will happen when folks decide there is no profit, no reason in opening businesses? You will have Govt. and MEGA Corps whose noses are so far up the rumps of Govt. as to be indistinguishable. Where does the U.S. Govt. end and G.E. (Owner of NBC et al) begin?
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What? No! That won't happen! The government will have used their special magic powers to drive out the evil business men so they can have us living in a land of milk and honey!
"So, why do we need all these regulations and programs? Can't people be trusted to work it out themselves?"
"No! People are idiots and that's why we need government keeping things in line or it would all be chaos"
"So people can't function without central planning to keep things running?"
"Yes"
"So...aren't governments made up of people themselves? Where's their central planners"
Compare this to...
"So why don't you believe in evolution? You really think life couldn't have formed on it's own through the principles described by the theory?"
"No, it could never happen. Anything so complex would have to have a creator. It's obvious!"
"So anything complex must have a creator?"
"Yes"
"But...such a god would be complex too. Doesn't he need a creator according to your own logic?"
This is why I call anti free market people dogmatists because they use the exact same fallacious, special pleading argument employed against the theory of evolution which coincidentally, the free market borrows a lot of ideas from. It sounds okay at first but both ultimately beg the question that the collectivists cannot answer: You say things need central planning but why does god/gov get a free pass?
You must explain why god/gov gets to be the exception to your own claims or else you're not explaining anything.