Issue Positions: Prosperity

Issue Position

Politicians do not know best.

Please repeat that with me.

Politicians do not know best.

Since political promises never, ever perform as advertised, we shouldn't have to say that. But for some reason, we keep falling for the notion that a few people, trained mostly in "law" (this is another problem; another subject...but lawyers are to actual law what firemen are to fire), know best how to run an economy that is, in fact, the impossibly complicated, by-the-minute interaction of individual decisions from turning on a light to buying a fleet of cruise ships; from selling old fishing gear to investing in edgy new technology.

Nobody could know how to manage a self-correcting, self-policing, wealth-building free market economy, and that's precisely the point and beauty of it.

Just as we don't expect politicians to micromanage our bodies' transformation of food into energy, we should expect them to leave the most democratic, egalitarian and organic free-choice machinery possible, alone.

Don't let the authoritarians mislead you about the real nature of a free market. It's not the corporate fascism we've swapped for what used to make poor immigrants and freed slaves both free and prosperous. The corporate politics you see all around you today is the opposite of a free market.

A free market is the result of mutually beneficial, freely made, coercion-free decisions.

What we have today is instead, technically, fascism, or authoritarian corporatism.

To summarize a long historical argument best made elsewhere, politics' only valid, workable role in human economies is to police and punish theft, fraud, coercion and unfair corporate powers.

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