[e-gold-list] Re: voluntary taxation (fishing)

2001-02-12 Thread auto129994
"Bob" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Efficiency? You think a criminal enterprise can enforce efficiency? They can't even do that in the Military. Show me one government operation that is efficient. Just one! Easy! How about their hiring offices for shiny new bureaucrats? Those seem to be

[e-gold-list] Re: voluntary taxation (fishing)

2001-02-11 Thread Bob
David Hillary wrote: The allocation of natural resources in these circumstances is characterised by inefficiency and imprudent use (e.g. a fishery will by inefficiently over-harvested if many fishers can access it without restriction). In order to use the price mechanism to ration the

[e-gold-list] Re: voluntary taxation (fishing)

2001-02-11 Thread David Hillary
Bob wrote: David Hillary wrote: The allocation of natural resources in these circumstances is characterised by inefficiency and imprudent use (e.g. a fishery will by inefficiently over-harvested if many fishers can access it without restriction). In order to use the price mechanism

[e-gold-list] Re: voluntary taxation (fishing)

2001-02-11 Thread Bob
David Hillary wrote: Bob wrote: David Hillary wrote: The allocation of natural resources in these circumstances is characterised by inefficiency and imprudent use (e.g. a fishery will by inefficiently over-harvested if many fishers can access it without restriction). In

[e-gold-list] Re: voluntary taxation (fishing)

2001-02-11 Thread SnowDog
Establishing property rights in a fishery goes like this: You go and get some fish. When you have them on board and off the decks (so you can't easily loose them), they are now your property. No government required here. The government auctioning the right to fish presupposes that the