Difference between revisions of "Libertarians Are Huge Fans of Economic Coercion/coercion"

[[Category:Coercion]]

[[Category:Coercion]]

[[Category:Law]]

[[Category:Law]]

| 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.”

| 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}}"

| cite = [[Matt Bruenig]], "{{Link |Libertarians Are Huge Fans of Economic Coercion}}"

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