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COVID-19: from the restaurant scene March 2020
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Jonathan Loesberg
Jonathan Loesberg
If you read Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia (libertarians also like serial commas, evidently), which was his response to Rawls' Theory of Justice, you will see that his Utopia involves communities that choose their own governing principles as an alternative to Federal government. He, of course, envisioned fundamentalist communities as well as Rawlsian communities of the kind you want to live in. Rawls' answer to this at the philosophical level, is that such an arrangement guarantees rights only as long as freedom of movement is absolute, and it never is. Your system won't look so great if you're an African-American born in Texas and you're told the solution to your problems is to move to Nordic Washington. We won't even consider the community that decides to reinvent slavery.
The EU's response to the financial crisis as well as its current failure to enact massive financial aid in the face of the Cornona virus, shows just how badly the lack of real Federal financial systems work. Life is OK if you are France or Germany, a lot less so if you are Greece, Spain or Italy.
The EU's response to the financial crisis as well as its current failure to enact massive financial aid in the face of the Cornona virus, shows just how badly the lack of real Federal financial systems work. Life is OK if you are France or Germany, a lot less so if you are Greece, Spain or Italy.
Christian Miller (CMM)
Christian Miller
originally posted by BJ:
Nothing that radical. The EU has a ton of internal financial transfer. Not the right comparisions.
California yes = France
Vermont =Latvia
Texas = Spain
Mississipi =Macedonia
Those last two look awfully optimistic to me, based on their current politics.
Also, they grow Vranec in Macedonia, but Scuppernong in Mississipi. Major downgrade in living standards right there!
Christian Miller (CMM)
Christian Miller
The EU's response to the financial crisis as well as its current failure to enact massive financial aid in the face of the Cornona virus, shows just how badly the lack of real Federal financial systems work. Life is OK if you are France or Germany, a lot less so if you are Greece, Spain or Italy.
One could claim that Greece suffered so badly because it wasn't independent enough; they had no independent currency to devalue and faced a unified front of creditors with a very unhelpful mindset. But agree with your basic point. They may be total ingrates, but poorer, redder states benefited greatly from automatic Federal stabilizers and transfers in the last recession (in contrast to the EU).