{"id":12515,"date":"2011-10-22T16:34:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T15:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=12515"},"modified":"2011-10-22T16:34:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T15:34:44","slug":"the-first-reaction-to-the-courageous-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/10\/22\/the-first-reaction-to-the-courageous-state\/","title":{"rendered":"The first reaction to The Courageous State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first blog reaction to the\u00a0Courageous State has come in, almost<a href=\"http:\/\/timworstall.com\/2011\/10\/21\/the-courageous-state\/\" target=\"_blank\"> inevitably\u00a0from Tim Worstall<\/a>. He said, <a href=\"http:\/\/courageousstate.com\/2011\/10\/21\/recognising-the-courageous-state\/\" target=\"_blank\">having read just one highlight<\/a> that I've published:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My word, this book is going to be interesting,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/courageousstate.com\/\">isn\u2019t it<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>The Courageous State, among other things, will:<\/p>\n<p><em> Support the broader goals of family, community and society and the achievement of purpose through identity;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not quite Kinde, Kuche und Kirchen but I can\u2019t be the only person to find something vaguely fascist about it can I?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So promoting economic and social policies that support the family, community and society so that people can achieve their own goals is fascist, is it?<\/p>\n<p>I think that's the first and last time I need to pay attention to what the libertarian right say about this book: Worstall single-handedly reveals just how first of all out of touch they are with normal human objectives and secondly how unable they are to engage in anything approaching meaningful debate.<\/p>\n<p>There is one irony though: when he also wants ( as no doubt he will) to cast it as Marxist he might now have a problem. That would be rationally inconsistent, after all, and \u00a0a\u00a0libertarian could never be that, could they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first blog reaction to the\u00a0Courageous State has come in, almost inevitably\u00a0from Tim Worstall. He said, having read just one highlight that I&#8217;ve published: My<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/10\/22\/the-first-reaction-to-the-courageous-state\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courageous-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}