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  • Review from Chad W.

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    Calgary, AB

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    12/3/2008 1 photo

    Human nature must be considered selfish, and so long as people do not aggress against the property (the life, liberty, and the material extension of that life into the physical world--capital) of others, the process of civilization will continue. Exchange can only be considered productive when it is achieved through voluntary contractual exchange and transactions will then only occur if both parties consent and are better off than they would otherwise be having not made the exchange or transaction. Only when both are better off having performed the exchange, will they partake in trade as demonstrated by the axiom of human action--people act in their best interests or in what they subjectively consider to be their best interests. When two people make a voluntary exchange it follows that the agreement must be mutually beneficial, otherwise the parties would pursue different options like trading with another or simply not trading at all. This is the foundation for progress and the process of civilization. When exchange is involuntary or forced through aggression or coercion, one party is forced to take an action they otherwise wouldn't under other circumstances. This forces one party to use his property in a way he does not want to. This type of exchange must be considered unproductive, as under different circumstances he would use his property in another way, in a way he sees as beneficial. (Rothbard, 2004, pg. 875-876)

    Furthermore, advocation of the state as an ethical theory in economics is both fallacious and contradictory. Of course, when one advocates the state, they do so under the impression that the state's regulation is egalitarian in nature and will be equally applied to all. Herein lies one of the largest contradictions of statist thought. Creation of the state presupposes the existence of two distinct class groups: the tax-payer and the tax-receiver. For unlike private citizens and privately owned corporations, only the state apparatus is given the legitimized use of coercion and force and the ability to commit aggression against the population. The power of the government to regulate is also monopolistic in nature, given that no one else has the ability to make compulsory laws arbitrarily and rules that affect one group and not another. It is an economic law that a monopoly is always bad for the consumer. And what is an actor but a consumer and user of property? For when the government takes wealth or capital from one group or one individual and gives it to another, not only does it go against our ultimate goal of comprising a truly ethical set of guidelines for the prosperity for mankind, it creates two distinct and unequal groups: the producers, from whom property is plundered, and the non-producers, who receive capital not through voluntary contractual exchange, but through non-productive means: aggression and coercion at the hands of the government on their behalf. This creates a disincentive to produce and an incentive to be a non-producer. It is the very manifestation of parasitism. No one person has the right to take property from another individual without their direct consent. The government is comprised of human beings, who cannot be given rights not extended to everyone else. This is unethical and is incompatible with our goal of a universally applicable and moral ethic to guide mankind toward greatness and prosperity.  (Rothbard, 1998, pg. 175-178)

    REVENUE CANADA IS MORALLY FRAUDULENT!!!

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