🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 11:21:56 -0500, p_j@postzzzmark.net (p_j) wrote:

>treblehorn AKA brojack <poop@youface.net> wrote:
>
>> http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/96jun/smith.html
>> Adam Smith
>> Economist and Philosopher
>> 
>
>> Smith laid the intellectual framework that explained the free market
>> and still holds true today. He is most often recognized for the
>> expression "the invisible hand," which he used to demonstrate how
>> self-interest guides the most efficient use of resources in a nation's
>> economy, with public welfare coming as a by-product. To underscore his
>> laissez-faire convictions, Smith argued that state and personal
>> efforts, to promote social good are ineffectual compared to unbridled
>> market forces.
>
>I never said he was a share the wealth communist.
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> Last weekin SF, your heroine Hillary said, "We're going to take from
> you and give to the common good."

Are you mentally retarded or something? The people who founded the
country used the same rhetoric. Adam Smith used the same rhetoric. 

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Heh.

jas

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> You were the dopey
>sheeple who claimed that a single statement by Hillary Clinton was
>"communist" which was nonsense. Your sick moral system has wealthy
>people having their lives supported by poor people because they are
>inferior. No thanks fascist.
>
>"The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of
>the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective
>abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively
>enjoy under the protection of the state.... [As Henry Home (Lord Kames)
>has written, a goal of taxation should be to] 'remedy inequality of
>riches as much as possible, by relieving the poor and burdening the
>rich'" - Adam Smith being a communist accarding to klansman jack of the
>SSA