Even Adam Smith, main architect of free market capitalism, said it couldn’t exist outside an ethical context. He never foresaw capitalism untied to any govt regulation. Capitalism will reclaim an ethical & moral center or a younger generation of Americans will replace it entirely
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FDR said “I’m not destroying capitalism. I’m saving it.” You can’t sustain a free market when it becomes unfree for the majority of people. You can’t be a capitalist when you have no access to capital! Too many Americans are locked out of the party; it’s immoral & unsustainable.
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Our problem among other things is that there’s no force with major political leverage willing to question the fundamental premise on which the system operates. That used to be the Democratic Party and hopefully it will be again. Right now it’s only lone voices; that’s not enough
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You raised your hand when asked about giving free healthcare to illegal immigrants. Milton Friedman stated "you cannot have open borders and a welfare state." Just admit it: you, like everybody else onstage who asked that question, were too afraid to stand for common sense.
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Right now, with the coronavirus, you would have healthcare denied to people because they’re not “legal?” The virus obviously does not care. So you would prefer that people be out and about spreading the virus, but you would call that common sense?

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(1)Bringing in foreigners with unconditional access to free resources taken from the local population through forced taxation (yes, all taxation is forced) is NOT humanitarian. Forcing people to give money or else face imprisonment for “tax evasion” is not a fundamentally loving
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That I “would have healthcare denied people blah blah blah” is an emotionally manipulative lie. You advocated for an insane system which it is well evident would be unsuccessful at providing healthcare and destructively overburden a debatably working system.