President-elect Obama's rationale for a new public health plan isthat it would give Americans who are not enrolled inemployment-based health insurance coverage, or those with insecurecoverage, the opportunity to obtain stable, affordable healthinsurance with a guaranteed set of government-standardizedbenefits. But while this might look like a prescription forconsumer choice and competition, the reality is very different.
Conversations with Zane Mooneyhan About Austro-libertarianism and Much More
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2021 3:08 PM
Subject: A second Question
One more thing, sorry I bring all my questions to you, you always answer fastest and with the most sources haha. So I was thinking about federally enclosed land and whatnot, and how there is millions of square miles of “federally owned” land, or otherwise controlled by the US govt, where they are preventing people from going in and homesteading their own land. Is there a case to be made that the govt control of this land is significantly inflating land/property prices? And if so would you say the libertarian solution would be to 1. Sell off the land or 2. “free up” the land, allowing people to go in and homestead the property. The second option seems like the correct libertarian solution to me, and I think this whole thing gets overlooked when talking about poverty and capital accumulation under capitalism. I don’t see why there i
like consol energy i do believe these health benefits should be extended. i m not going to insert myself into ongoing negotiations appropriators are having about the length of that. last question. the foundation, the estimates of tax reform, tax cuts [ inaudible question ] but one of their assumptions is that there s no crowd-out effect from rising debt for that. and so, i m curious as to whether, people in the past have said [ naudeible ] will have a drag. it s all about interest rates, jonathan. i think under most models, you assume a normalization of interest rates will occur. the question is do interest rates go above their normal rates or do they go higher because of debt and deficits crowding out investment? i do believe that we have to have fiscal discipline in