View source for Libertarians Are Huge Fans of Economic Coercion/coercion

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[[Category:Matt Bruenig]]
[[Category:Laissez Faire]]
[[Category:Libertarian Hypocrisy]]
[[Category:Robert Hale]]
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| text = What’s amusing about libertarians and laissez-faire people (and the loose way certain economists talk) is that they will describe my choice to pay rent as non-coerced and voluntary while describing my choice to pay income taxes as coerced and involuntary. But there is no neutral construction of “coercion” that would ever support such a distinction. As Hale aptly demonstrates, coercion occurs when there are “background constraints on the universe of socially available choices from which an individual might ‘freely’ choose.”
| cite = [[Matt Bruenig]], "{{Link |Libertarians Are Huge Fans of Economic Coercion}}"
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