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		<title>Morality and Government Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two ways to think about government.  By far the most common is to think of government as a force over and above the citizens which has always just been there, which provides for them, which they are inherently bound and subject to, and which can be petitioned as one petitions God or a child petitions its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realfreeradical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10166071&amp;post=856&amp;subd=realfreeradical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morality and Government</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Radical</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a continuation of what I started in this post on morality and ethics.  The position I am disputing is that government shouldn&#8217;t tax because taxation is theft and theft is immoral.  Let me say up front, that a government which could accomplish its purpose without taxation would be ideal and I believe it&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realfreeradical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10166071&amp;post=850&amp;subd=realfreeradical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Revolutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Radical</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check it out!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realfreeradical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10166071&amp;post=844&amp;subd=realfreeradical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vermin Supreme</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think this guy is a closet genius.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realfreeradical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10166071&amp;post=841&amp;subd=realfreeradical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Means, Ends and Ethics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Radical</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I promised I would write a post explaining why taxation is ok following this exchange on The Compassionate Conservative. Thomas H.: Government can be funded through voluntary donation only. A lottery and payment for the protection of contracts are one way this can be achieved. These methods of raising funds, as well as private donations, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realfreeradical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10166071&amp;post=836&amp;subd=realfreeradical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Recess&#8221; Appointments</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Radical</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama escalated the war on congress today.  He&#8217;s basically doing whatever he wants now and claiming an &#8220;obligation to act on behalf of the American people.&#8221;  This is very troubling.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realfreeradical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10166071&amp;post=833&amp;subd=realfreeradical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Savings = Investment</title>
		<link>http://realfreeradical.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/savings-investment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Radical</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was poking around on Nick Rowe&#8217;s blog, and came across this piece on Keynesian economics.  If you recall in this post I recently pointed out a peculiar aspect of Keynesian economics: [H]ow is it that if savings equals investment and savings equals income minus consumption, that when you lower interest rates investment increases but consumption [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realfreeradical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10166071&amp;post=828&amp;subd=realfreeradical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Austrian Economics</title>
		<link>http://realfreeradical.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/more-austrian-economics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Radical</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/hub.1324331373.html Here is a perfect example of what I&#8217;ve been talking about regarding Austrian economists.  In this post, the author takes an observation that mainstream economists find puzzling and tries to convince you that it isn&#8217;t puzzling to Austrians and this is evidence that Austrian economics is superior.  But in the process he demonstrates total [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realfreeradical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10166071&amp;post=822&amp;subd=realfreeradical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Money Creation</title>
		<link>http://realfreeradical.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/money-creation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now we get to the real reason Austrian economics can&#8217;t save us from the Keynesians.  Austrians know that Keynesian economics doesn&#8217;t really make sense.  Unfortunately they don&#8217;t know that Keynesian economics kind of makes sense.  It&#8217;s just that they Keynesians are not very clear about what they are really doing.  They give things misleading names [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realfreeradical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10166071&amp;post=810&amp;subd=realfreeradical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mainstream (Keynesian) Economics</title>
		<link>http://realfreeradical.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/mainstream-keynesian-economics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Radical</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I recently took on Austrian economics, I would be remiss if I didn&#8217;t turn my ire on mainstream economics before moving on to my ultimate purpose.  First of all, mainstream micro is great (at least most of it), even though it sometimes falls back on cardinal utility.  My problem is with the macro.  Mainstream [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realfreeradical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10166071&amp;post=802&amp;subd=realfreeradical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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