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Donald Ian Rankin

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3. I'm afraid I don't think that's the crushing retort you think it is.

Reply to Scuba (Reply #2)

Sun Apr 27, 2014, 09:02 AM

Apr 2014

The most obvious flaw is that there's nothing to stop a business moving production out of the city while continuing to sell within it.

A secondary flaw is that it's only applicable to businesses whose only customers (or, at least, a major fraction of whose customers) are in the relevant city.

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Today I saw a socialist city council member attacked from the left. [View all] eridani Apr 2014 OP

I think this is probably a bad idea at a city level. Donald Ian Rankin Apr 2014 #1

Yeah, what kind of business wants consumers to have money in their pockets? Scuba Apr 2014 #2

I'm afraid I don't think that's the crushing retort you think it is. Donald Ian Rankin Apr 2014 #3

And I believe a national pipoman Apr 2014 #4

Hmm. Donald Ian Rankin Apr 2014 #5

The issue is pipoman Apr 2014 #6

It's not so risky in Seattle. lumberjack_jeff Apr 2014 #7

It happens a lot....... socialist_n_TN Apr 2014 #8

What they are is the ONLY socialist organization within living memory that actually-- eridani Apr 2014 #9

Well, it helped that that platform she ran on was NOT socialist....... socialist_n_TN Apr 2014 #10

These days people think that "socialism" is a generic euphemism for "public goods" eridani Apr 2014 #11