This morning a caller on David Sirota's "progressive" radio talk show said that the Haitian tragedy is proof that a libertarian government would always fail because the Haitians didn't have any building codes.
The ignorance behind that statement is staggering.
Haiti is not a libertarian government. It is a corrupt authoritarian regime.
They are opposites. Antonyms. Diametrically opposed.
Sirota let the statement pass without correction. He knows better.
It is my observation that most laws about things like building codes come after the market has already made major inroads towards implementing them voluntarily, and that the biggest factor between well made buildings in a city and poorly made ones is the amount of wealth in the city not the amount of building codes.
It is my observation that most laws about things like building codes come after the market has already made major inroads towards implementing them voluntarily, and that the biggest factor between well made buildings in a city and poorly made ones is the amount of wealth in the city not the amount of building codes.
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