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Bob White and "Free
Market"
by Glenn Woiceshyn
Published in the Globe and Mail on Oct/08/1997.
Dar Editor,
Re: "How Not to Create Jobs"--by Robert White--Sep/30/97--the Globe and
Mail
Robert White's piece suggests that one way to get an article accepted for the Globe's
Commentary page is to make arbitrary assertions, distort facts, drop context, contradict
yourself, and then end with a pro-liberal conclusion against a straw man called the
"free market."
A free market means no government interference in the economy -- including no minimum
wage, no coercive union legislation, no special government favours, no taxes, and
no red tape. (The job of the government is to protect individual rights, which can
be funded by means other than coercive taxation.)
Where in the universe today is there a free market? Certainly not in the U.S., with
its rising minimum wage, coercive union legislation, high taxes and massive red tape.
If the free market is so destructive, as Mr. White asserts, how did the U.S. create
so much wealth during the 19th century when it was virtually a free market?
Sincerely,
Glenn Woiceshyn
© 1997 Glenn Woiceshyn. All rights reserved.
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