If people want to arrange to use private currency-equivalents among themselves to pay bills other than tax bills, nothing is stopping them. But such things never seem to catch on when tried – Bitcoins, f’rinstance. There’s also such thing as scrip, but it never circulates outside a micromarket.
Rand says, fine, I’ll attribute my sources, “if it will make people leave me the hell alone.”
Well, it wouldn’t entirely, she would still have to pay taxes in government currency, so she would have to have some ways to get some.
The Washington Times is discontinuing Paul’s weekly column. In explanation the editors said:
When asked for comment upon hearing the news, Mr. Paul replied:
Well played, Sicks Ate.
This is exactly what I am going to ask students when I suspect then of plagiarism. “Did you leave out footnotes and typesetting indentations through errors in your approval process?”
The excuse is pretty obviously BS, in anycase. I’d be open to the idea that the editor just forgot to typeset something as a quote. But the text of the quote was changed somewhat, so obviously this isn’t the case.
Plus, who puts a three page block quote in a popular politics books?
I can’t believe how badly he’s handling this. Usually with guys like this, I don’t believe they are as dumb as they come off; I just assume they are doing some combination of dumbing down and pandering to their target audience.
But Paul is speaking in Washington, to national news broadcasts, not some holler in Kentucky. And he genuinely appears to not know what plagiarism is.
I’m pretty darned sure he knows exactly what it is. He’s just decided that he can’t actually admit it, because it would be admitting that he (and, by extension, his staff) is lazy at best, and of questionable morality at worst.
Ridiculous form of argument. Because we had instituted something decades ago, it does not follow that it was a good idea. Examples: Slavery, Jim Crow Laws, Prohibition. All things that were “figured out” at some point and then changed.
Actually my initial claim was that Maddowites find it necessary to hold Tea Party Republicans responsible for ethical failures but not establishment Democrats. I also threw in the bit about worship in a rhetorical flourish. I thought the info dump you initially provided was to refute the first claim, but it was evidently to refute the “worship” claim. No i do not think Maddow worships the president. I do think she holds him to a lower ethical standard than Rand Paul.
This is confusing the issue. Say the government defines the dollar as 1/1000 of a gold ounce. If a producer mines 1/1000 of a gold ounce he can trade it for a dollar, a lottery ticket, a beverage, a loaf of bread, etc. The price of goods is now set in their relation to the quantity of gold.
I didn’t bring up Somalia. One of the robots did that.
The current drone policy has been set by the Obama administration. I believe I am correct in holding him personally responsible for the way drones have been used while he has been commander in chief.
Really? Drones kill more people than no drones? These alternatives you speak of would be politically impossible to implement in countries like Pakistan and Yemen, so drones kill innocents where otherwise innocents would be spared. I am obviously not suggesting we replace the drones with conventional weapons. Also your claim that conspiracy theorists, Austrian economists, and gold standard advocates are the only people against the murder of innocents by drone is pure demagoguery. You should be ashamed of yourself. Not to mention your fellow Obamaphile has provided evidence that Maddowites are anti-drone, so it is interesting that nobody has rebuffed this claim. (Actually it isn’t. Statists are seldom rebuffed by fellow statists when they are engaged with a non-statist and make foolish statements on this forum)
This is a bizarre post. The price of gold right now is kept artificially high by money printing, just as the price of stocks, housing, and other assets. What specific claim of mine are you trying to refute?
Lindsey Graham says 4700 have been killed. I’m not actually allowed to know more details about this number.
Gold would likely become the common money in a free market. That isn’t to say that I’m wrong. Gold is subject to 28% capital gains tax. It isn’t allowed to compete with the dollar.
You will not insult other posters like this while you’re posting in this forum.
How about minerals, foodstuffs, etc.? Is their price kept artificially high? Do you grasp that prices can always be thought of as ratios?
What my post showed was that The price or value of U.S. T-bonds has outperformed the price of gold. Are you saying that if gold price were not “artificially high” the T-bonds would have outperformed even more? I’d be happy to peruse a brief and intelligible summary of your views, if you really need to know which specific claims are wrong. But please don’t ask me to wade through tripe like “Counterfeiting is evidently but another name for inflation.”
On another matter, would you deign to comment on the morality Paul’s plagiarism in isolation without comparing it to the pogroms and baby-killing of Paul’s political opponents?
Many writers, IME.
And he’s a doctor, yet. This wasn’t covered in med school? This wasn’t covered in pre-med?!
Bad idea for a lot of reasons.
I suspect you only want a gold standard because you have the illusion that it would somehow place the value of money beyond governmental manipulation, which is a thing neither desirable nor possible.
Sadly, I would say that it’s possible to get through med school and an ophthalmology residency (in which he almost certainly published research) without giving any serious thought to what constitutes plagiarism. Medical education does not necessarily encourage intellectual curiosity.
That being said, I don’t think Paul cares whether what he’s saying has any relationship with reality or not; it’s classic bullshit, per the Harry Frankfurt definition.
I think it is possible for Asteroid mining to provide nearly unlimited cheap minerals within our lifetime, which will be tragic for Glenn Beck listeners.
Because that includes gold?
Is “robot” an insult now? Thanks a lot.
No, you mean “Domo arigato!”