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.
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Anarcho-capitalist is a weird way to say leissez-faire capitalist.
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.
Milei is not an anarcho-capitalist.
Edit: And another source in spanish where he referred to himself as an ancap.
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
He's an ancap and just as shitty as all the others. No need to no true Scotts the guy
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.
Guy calls himself ancap and guts services people depend on. Pretty ancap.
Theory usually needs to compromise when confronted with reality, there are no blank slates or ideal conditions. Ask the communists.
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.
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.
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.
Part of the issue here is that you are supporting a libertarian platform. Cutting aid for the needy and cutting taxes to support oligarchy is pretty much their game plan. They won't say they are supporting oligarchy, but it is the logical conclusion of their ideas.
I do generally lean towards lowercase-L libertarianism (I don't support the Libertarian party) but running a huge deficit isn't libertarian. Taxes shouldn't be lower than spending in the long term.
Im empathetic to surface level libertarian stuff, but i have to treat them for what they are overall; supporters of oligarchy. Their attacks on environmental protections and civil rights don't out right say it, but its clear and the logical conclusion for "let the market solve it"