Are you a statist?

[Ideologue]

It's a perjorative term so I doubt anyone is going to answer in the affirmative.  Maybe Ide.

Did, but I've affirmed that before.

[derspiess]

It's a perjorative term so I doubt anyone is going to answer in the affirmative.  Maybe Ide.

13 out of 27 respondents so far.  HA!

Btw many useful terms are considered pejorative by some.  The term "socialist" is considered fairly pejorative in the US, but that doesn't mean it should never be used.

[Gups]

How about this for a working definition: A statist is someone who believes that it is acceptable or desirable for government spendin ggto exceed 50% of GDP

[Razgovory]

How about this for a working definition: A statist is someone who believes that it is acceptable or desirable for government spendin ggto exceed 50% of GDP

I like this one better:  A Statist is a person who believes that people should be governed by states as opposed those who believe that you should be governed by individuals.  In other words, people who want to a government rather then be the personal slave of someone else.

[Admiral Yi]

How about this for a working definition: A statist is someone who believes that it is acceptable or desirable for government spendin ggto exceed 50% of GDP

A little on the abstract side, no?  And I believe the US, the great bastion of Anglo Saxon laissez faire, is around 50% if you include all the layers of government.

I counterpropose public ownership of intercity and international transportation: airlines, railways.

[derspiess]

How about this for a working definition: A statist is someone who believes that it is acceptable or desirable for government spendin ggto exceed 50% of GDP

I like this one better:  A Statist is a person who believes that people should be governed by states as opposed those who believe that you should be governed by individuals.  In other words, people who want to a government rather then be the personal slave of someone else.

You are worse than Stalin.

[CountDeMoney]

Regardless, I'm still a sadist.

[derspiess]

Regardless, I'm still a sadist.

But we already knew that.

[The Minsky Moment]

Sorry for thinking you guys were familiar with the term.

Never mind then, the sheesh...

I am familiar with the term as a somewhat archaic French political characterization.
You might as well ask how many people identify themselves as physiocrats.

[derspiess]

Sorry for thinking you guys were familiar with the term.

Never mind then, the sheesh...

I am familiar with the term as a somewhat archaic French political characterization.
You might as well ask how many people identify themselves as physiocrats.

Cool.  Maybe next week.

[The Brain]

No, since I don't know what it is.

[Razgovory]

How about this for a working definition: A statist is someone who believes that it is acceptable or desirable for government spendin ggto exceed 50% of GDP

I like this one better:  A Statist is a person who believes that people should be governed by states as opposed those who believe that you should be governed by individuals.  In other words, people who want to a government rather then be the personal slave of someone else.

You are worse than Stalin.

You seem to forget that the tyranny in the US has come overwhelmingly from individuals and not government.  Millions of people were born, lived and died in chattel slavery.  Not slaves of the state, but slaves of  private individuals.  These people were only freed by actions of the Federal government.

[derspiess]

You seem to forget that the tyranny in the US has come overwhelmingly from individuals and not government.  Millions of people were born, lived and died in chattel slavery.  Not slaves of the state, but slaves of  private individuals.  These people were only freed by actions of the Federal government.

And the state was not complicit in slavery.  Nope, not one bit

[The Minsky Moment]

OK I'll bite then.

Generally speaking, I think Louis XIV was on the wrong track and although Colbert was a brilliant administrator, his trade policy was misguided.
So I am going to vote no.
The physiocrats OTOH were basically on the right track even if there were problems with the details so I will vote yes on them.

[Razgovory]

You seem to forget that the tyranny in the US has come overwhelmingly from individuals and not government.  Millions of people were born, lived and died in chattel slavery.  Not slaves of the state, but slaves of  private individuals.  These people were only freed by actions of the Federal government.

And the state was not complicit in slavery.  Nope, not one bit

How many slaves were owned by the state compared to how many were owned by individuals?  To the slave owners the state did not give the right to own a slave, it was an innate right.  Just as the state does not confer the right own other types of property.