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Inveterate gnashnab & snoutband
Re: Independent Scientology Religious Liberty League: The Free Practice of Scientolog
Lol. And this is why I said I should've kept my mouth shut. You will always come back with a new wrinkle whatever anybody says. I'll refute your bolded statement here:
In Europe, the laissez-faire movement was first widely promoted by the physiocrats, a movement that originated with Vincent de Gournay, a successful merchant. Gournay adopted the concept, which is the translation of Chinese philosoph ywu weii, from Francois Quesnay's writings on China. Gournay held that the government should allow the laws of nature to govern economic activity, with the state only intervening to protect life, liberty, and property.
His ideas were taken up by Francois Quesnay and Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne. Quesnay had the ear of the King of France, Louis VX, and in 1754 persuaded him to give laissez-faire a try. On September 17, the King abolished all tolls and restraints on the sale and transport of grain, and for more than a decade the experiment was a success. But then, in 1768, there was a poor harvest, and the cost of bread rose so high that there was widespread starvation, while merchants exported grain in order to obtain the best profit. In 1770, the edict allowing free trade was revoked.
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And I'll leave it at that mate. Life's too short.
I was talking about communism, of the flavor that Russia and China have since abandoned. The kind where the people may be "equal", but it's equality of poverty, while the Party elites live like the old aristocracy.
And Europe has never had laissez-faire capitalism, either before or after Thatcher. The EU states have varying degrees of welfare-state socialism. The US is not that much better. We can talk more about it after the EU tries to absorb a few million unemployable Muslims.
Lol. And this is why I said I should've kept my mouth shut. You will always come back with a new wrinkle whatever anybody says. I'll refute your bolded statement here:
In Europe, the laissez-faire movement was first widely promoted by the physiocrats, a movement that originated with Vincent de Gournay, a successful merchant. Gournay adopted the concept, which is the translation of Chinese philosoph ywu weii, from Francois Quesnay's writings on China. Gournay held that the government should allow the laws of nature to govern economic activity, with the state only intervening to protect life, liberty, and property.
His ideas were taken up by Francois Quesnay and Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne. Quesnay had the ear of the King of France, Louis VX, and in 1754 persuaded him to give laissez-faire a try. On September 17, the King abolished all tolls and restraints on the sale and transport of grain, and for more than a decade the experiment was a success. But then, in 1768, there was a poor harvest, and the cost of bread rose so high that there was widespread starvation, while merchants exported grain in order to obtain the best profit. In 1770, the edict allowing free trade was revoked.
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And I'll leave it at that mate. Life's too short.