re: The Anti Populist Crowd

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Traditional conservatism on immigration is that you can either have open borders and no welfare state (and no voting rights or citizenship), or you can have a welfare state and a pathway to citizenship, but you must control the border.

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No no. You can have a merit based immigration and no welfare states. You can have a closed border and no welfare state. etc.

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That's straight from Milton Friedmen.

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You say that as a badge of honor. Friedman is not right about alot of things. The results are in. Example, Friedman agreed with Keynes that an economy could be managed by government, and it was his belief that prices not only could but should be managed—?by the central bank controlling the amount of new money entering the system.

Hayek stated it right. “In one respect, Milton Friedman is still a Keynesian, not on monetary theory but on methodology,” "Milton Friedman is one of the apostles of macroeconomics."

Free Trade is like communism..... on paper, It's a great idea. In practice, the end result is not great!

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Second, yes, that's exactly what a free labor market looks like. You can attempt to discredit it by calling it illegal, but it's only illegal for the reason that Friedman said.

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No no no. It's illegal because it's breaking our immigration laws.

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That's how I feel about the Republican party being co-opted by populists.

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Are you like Roger? Do you think there was no conservatives prior to FDR?


Here are the results of Hull and Freidman's free trade and Globalism: