Vicious Destroyers of Nature

[fare]

The worst enemies of nature are the so-called ecologists, who ask for ever more government intervention and totalitarian control to impose their superstitious lunacies. Not only do their pseudo-scientific rants not rest on anything but irrational lies repeated over by a corrupt establishmenttheir evil ways, when backed by government violence

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[ancapi]

That's right, the red turns yellow by addition of green.

[averros]

Talking about arithmetic... today, in a different place (a russian-language blog) I made an estimate that if 100 years ago the US government simply disappeared, by now Americans would be about 1000000 times wealthier. [BTW, I didn't believe it, but I checked... a mere 15% less waste in yearly terms yields 1.15**100].

That's compound interest, and the assumption that out of money otherwise stolen as taxes (I took 50% as a baseline, but ignored all additional regulatory damage), people would spend 4/5th and save or invest 1/5th. The estimate is, obviously, seriously over-simplified and sensitive to the yield (as all long-term compound interest calculations are), and ignores the secondary effects (i.e. all those government busybodies having to do something useful for a change, lack of war spending, improved productivity due to higher capitalization, and such). But no matter how you slice it, the damage inflicted by the governments is staggeringly enormous, and, still, people fail to see it.