• InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Anarcho-capitalists are ghouls. There is a lot riding on this to keep exporting his experiments (like DOGE), so it will be a long time until we know how badly his polices have hurt ordinary argentinians.

    • IsaamoonKHGDT_6143@lemmy.zip
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      11 hours ago

      Milei is not an anarcho-capitalist. Hoppe, who belongs to that movement, criticizes Milei. As for his policies, according to the Argentine National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC), monthly inflation has fallen and increased by 5.8%.

      The DOGE (General Administration of Geography) was a stupid idea because the GAO was there, but since they weren’t going to be partisan to his policies, they ignored it.

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          10 hours ago

          Milei says he’s an “anarcho-capitalist,” but he doesn’t live up to the values ​​that that political ideology preaches. Most people will think you’re part of the movement just by saying that, but they won’t investigate his actions to see if what he says is true.

          But those who are in the movement will want Milei to leave, because it will only tarnish the movement and make people think they’re like that when in reality they aren’t.

          Here Hoppe criticizes Milei for meeting with Netanyahu

          Then this video criticizes Milei for not investigating the movement well.

          Mises also criticizes Milei in an article for not closing the central banks. Link to the article

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            4 hours ago

            Theory usually needs to compromise when confronted with reality, there are no blank slates or ideal conditions. Ask the communists.

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              6 hours ago

              I understand, I was just implying that Milei wasn’t ancap, and that just because someone has that philosophy doesn’t mean they’re shit, except for the Zionists.

              I hope you don’t get fake Scotts and people confuse them with the real Scotts in your political philosophy.

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    11 hours ago

    So far, Milei has been right and his critics have been wrong. I assume he’ll veto this again.

    The thing about government spending (and I’m seeing it come up a lot in the context of Trump’s budget cuts too) is that pretty much all of it is important to someone sympathetic who will experience hardship without it. Reducing spending means taking money away from people who need it, but reducing spending is still sometimes necessary for long-term national prosperity.

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      10 hours ago

      I agree with what he says, although Milei still has several points that could be criticized.

      Returning to the topic of public spending, it’s difficult because each side wants more. Argentina made those cuts because its finances weren’t doing well and inflation was rising.

      The United States isn’t in that situation, so they could make those cuts more efficiently, but Trump made the cuts more for political reasons than practical ones. Added to the fact that his law, approved by Congress, makes it more likely that the United States will have more delicate finances in the future.

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        9 hours ago

        I didn’t mean to imply that Trump’s overall budget is a good one - maybe the cuts could be justified as part of a serious effort to reduce the deficit, but I don’t support them when they’re accompanied by even bigger tax cuts and the deficit grows.