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Why is libertarianism so infallible?

Name: Anonymous 2007-06-04 7:05 ID:qJENOkNb

It is due to it being the application of political science. It does not permit failed policies to be continued fruitlessly year after year with idealistic fervour, it is next to impossible for anyone surrounded by fierce libertarian critics to continue clinging on to lies. It is a purely functional machine, lubricated with justice and fueled by free speech.

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-22 23:01 ID:EQ/lZ2ya

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What are you talking about? Laws have and are being passed so people actually pay more at the pharmacy than ever before.

For example, Medicaid shows just how price controls backfire. According to the Government Accountability Office, a 1990 law requiring pharmaceutical firms to grant a 15 percent discount for Medicaid purchases ended up raising prices for managed care.

Price controls also would create other huge disincentives for companies to develop new lifesaving drugs. Not only would price controls curtail overall research; they also would divert it into less risky and less promising areas — particularly with regard to seniors.

In other words, if drugs that are primarily used by seniors suddenly are made unprofitable by federal decree, the drug industry would lose all incentive to develop cures for diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, that affect mostly senior citizens. Companies instead would focus on developing cures for which demand is more evenly spread among different age groups.

See? Government interference never actually ~helps~ anything, though it seems like it would.

The Government needs to stick where they are useful - judges, prisons, national defense and police. I think people can care for their homes and communities on their own.

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