The job of supposed intellectuals is to combat over simplification or reductionism and to say,
well actually, it's more complicated than that.
At least that is part of the job.
However, you must have noticed how often certain complexities are introduced
as a means of obfuscation.
Here it becomes necessary to ply with glee the celebrated razor of old Occam,
dispose of unnecessary assumptions, and
proclaim that actually, things are less complicated than they appear.
Christopher Hitchens
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Coolidge:Collecting more taxes than absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. Me: And no taxes are absolutely necessary.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2015
Free trade puts the interests of the consumer ahead those of anti-competitive nationalists and special interests. http://t.co/XV2a0tlgWU
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2015
Sen. Shaheen (D-NH) wants to put a woman on the $20 bill. Because the Susan B. Anthony dollar deserves a worthy successor, the Yellen $20..
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2015
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(The Independent Institute). "Water shortages seem to be complicated and mysterious, perhaps caused by population growth, climate change, or both, with no obvious solution beyond deputizing 'water police' to fine people who waste water by sprinkling driveways, sidewalks, and streets, or requiring 'low flow' toilets. Such approaches to water conservation treat symptoms rather than causes.
The basic problem is almost absurdly simple: water is underpriced." —William Shughart
NO, the PROBLEM is the LARGEST "CONSUMERS", water bottling companies and Fracking drilling, AREN"T PAYING ENOUGH !!!
Mostly economically illiterate thread. There are economic costs to providing/recovering any scarce resource like freshwater. The law of supply and demand tells us that low prices translate to high demand and substitute uses--whether we are talking about lush lawns or commercial uses or nonessential use. The answer is not state-controlled, low prices, which discourages competition for water suppliers, investment in more resource-efficient technologies, or imposes politically corrupt pricing preferences among users.
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