tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post3053754979970391210..comments2024-03-22T11:55:50.335+13:00Comments on Not PC: The Fiction of Austerity: How Greek Default May Sill Unravel the EUPeter Cresswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-76345717825596347882015-01-28T20:12:44.528+13:002015-01-28T20:12:44.528+13:00You cannot repeal the law of scarcity. The same is...<i> You cannot repeal the law of scarcity. The same is true of the economic platforms of Podemos in Spain and the National Front in France.</i><br /><br />And the National Party in NZ (not to mention Labour, Greens, NZF, and ACT by association).<br /><br />You would think a government with a policy to grow literal "money trees" would be treated with the same derision as a government that claimed the earth was flat or that the Sun went around the Earth. Pareto's law, and the universal franchise (as Don Brash pointed out in his overlooked autobiography) guarantees this will never happen: that the voters - the vast majority of them who pay far below mean tax - will always vote for the money tree. <br /><br />As Greece goes, so goes NZ!Angry Torynoreply@blogger.com