Ogre’s Politics and Views

So, did you catch this headline the other day? It said, “Text Rip-Off? Pricey Messages ‘Cost Virtually Nothing’ to Carriers.” It’s an article that claims that while people are paying a lot to send text messages, it doesn’t cost a lot for the carrier.

Now if you are one who pays a lot for text messages, you might be angry. If you are, you, and this article, are opposing capitalism. Before you read this article, if you were one pay to 20 cents to send a message, you were happy with it. After all, if you weren’t, you just didn’t pay it. That’s how freedom and capitalism work. If you are free and the seller is free, you both agree on a price that you both like. You both walk away happy. You got to send your message for a price you agreed with (because you weren’t forced to pay it), and the seller sent your message.

It’s called freedom. And I know a LOT of people hate it — like the folks at Fox News who wrote and published that article. And of course, government, in the form of Wisconsin Sen. Herb Kohl, the chairman of the Senate antitrust subcommittee, is working hard to stop you from having that freedom. Herb thinks that HE knows how much you should pay for, well, everything. That’s called socialism and it’s opposed to freedom.

Here’s how things would work in a free country: “I’ll give you 20 cents to send that.”
“Okay.”

That’s all. No one has to ask how much something cost. When is the last time you asked Wal-Mart how much they paid for a loaf of bread? Do you know how much the Quick-E-Mart paid for a gallon of gas? Have you ever asked Lowe’s how much they paid for the lumber they’re selling you?

In a free, capitalist country — which America is not — it doesn’t matter. When you have economic freedom, two parties agree on a price both benefit from. It doesn’t matter how much anyone else paid for anything.

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