Comments (5)

• T. Ralph Kays

  Another beauty by Bastiat! My favorite line in this article is "to reject wealth itself under pretense of encouraging the means of acquiring it", what a powerful statement.

  Published: November 9, 2009 12:17 PM

• Thomas Talionis

  I'm sure there were people who would've petitioned to ban the light bulb because it put all those candle makers out of business.

  And they call themselves Progressive.

  Published: November 9, 2009 1:05 PM

• Gerry Flaychy

  Asking to replace the already existing light of the sun by the light of other producers of light, is equivalent to asking to broke already existing windows to replace them by the windows of other producers of windows: two versions of the same basic story.

  In both cases, if the petition is agreed, consumers are the losers !
  

  Published: November 11, 2009 8:24 PM

• T. Ralph Kays

  Gerry

  Woohoo, you just keep getting better and better, by the way , where do you get whatever it is you are smoking?

  Published: November 12, 2009 1:02 AM

• Gerry Flaychy

  One of the things that this story says, is that if we have to chose between two producers of the same good, one onerous and one gratuitous or partly gratuitous, the only criterion should be the best interest of the consumers, not the importance for the country of one of the producers, or the importance of one producer over the other.
  
  The chief care must not be the interest of neither one of the producers, but the interest of the consumers.

  Published: November 19, 2009 4:23 PM