Monday 16 November 2009

Access to free trade is a natural right

If I am able to accumulate resources or tangible goods by fair means, then it is legitimate for me to be able to exchange them voluntarily with others who have behaved similarly. By definition, neither of the participants can have been harmed because we have chosen the arrangement freely and there can be no higher authority on what is good for each of us than ourselves. We know what is best for us.

If there is no harmed party who is able to reliably show that damage has been perpetrated to them or some property of theirs then it must be permissible.

It is not in the interests of either, or any participant, to be restricted from acting freely with others.

There should be no tariffs on trade.

For the Government to be owed money is not a given, or an article of faith, to claim that a debt (or taxes) are owed it must be shown by the claimant why this is so. We are innocent of debts (to the State) until proven guilty.

There is no reason why the State, simply by virtue of being such, is owed an unearned income when everyone else must earn their keep.

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