Tariffs Are A Form of ‘Legal Plunder’. This is How Bastiat Explained It
‘Some persons consider that plunder is perfectly justifiable, if only sanctioned by law. But, for myself, I cannot imagine anything more aggravating.’
‘Some persons consider that plunder is perfectly justifiable, if only sanctioned by law. But, for myself, I cannot imagine anything more aggravating.’
Since Keynes, fake economists have developed the habit of constructing parallel universes having nothing to do with the real world.
An entrepreneur earns profit by serving the consumers, the people, as they are and not as they should be according to the fancies of some grumbler or potential dictator.
Only Austrian economists understand that when entrepreneurs do good marketing, they create new value for customers
“Japanification” also comes with psychological and social consequences
“Protectionism, socialism, and communism are basically the same plant in three different stages of its growth. All that can be said is that legal plunder is more visible in communism”