That we live in a “Free” or “Laissez-Faire” Market is, as Jeffrey Tucker states, “sheer fantasy”. Free Markets and campaign promises during Presidential election speeches don’t go well together thus far, but Ron Paul’s trying his best and making more headway than anyone would have thought possible selling freedom.
Though we’ve been taught from the cradle in the US that we have a “free country” and a “free market” the reality is far different. In the home business arena which is the concern of this blog, we see that we really don’t have free markets because we constantly hear about the local bureaucrats using laws from the 1940’s to limit people’s ability to work at home on their laptop!
The article is worth reading.
danakeith on May 19th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Yes, very true.. Still we don’t have it, the said “free society” remained a word.. And it’ll always remain as it is for we still govern by the laws..