Recent content by DerekA

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This, and this is what RP advocates as far as I know - making competing currencies legal. The gold standard is a relic from another era that ended because governments manipulated the currency anyway. The market can handle money like anything else, a la bitcoin. I can't see paper being an...

Hardly any Libertarians up here It is insane to throw people in jail for ingesting a harmless herb. It is insane to forcibly take my money from me to blow up bridges in Afghanistan. It is insane that the Canadian government feels entitled to x% of my labour. I am not a slave. It is not...

Is an engineer in America much more useful than a similarly educated one in India? Or for any profession? Think of how easy it is for a company to hire overseas if it means a huge swing in the amount of profits they get to keep. Also, and most importantly in my mind, corporate taxes are a...