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Comments on: Can we justify the Easter trading laws? http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2014/07/14/can-we-justify-the-easter-trading-laws/ The Visible Hand in Economics Mon, 14 Jul 2014 23:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: ben http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2014/07/14/can-we-justify-the-easter-trading-laws/#comment-43450 Mon, 14 Jul 2014 23:37:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=11270#comment-43450 “Is this the only fair justification – and is it a reasonable justification in of itself?”

You actually have to ask the question?

For anyone considering answering yes I have all kinds of personal preferences I would like everyone else to obey (how about free skiing for over 35s, or free petrol for red 1998 Subarus), with the only difference being I may not be able to get 61 votes in parliament to support, which you didn’t ask about and doesn’t go to the merits in any case.

No, the justification is not reasonable.

]]> By: Paul Walker http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2014/07/14/can-we-justify-the-easter-trading-laws/#comment-43448 Mon, 14 Jul 2014 01:03:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=11270#comment-43448 In reply to VMC.

It did. It said “check what you write before posting”. Obviously told should have been took.

And if I can object to working at Easter, why can I not object to working, say, every Thursday?

]]> By: VMC http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2014/07/14/can-we-justify-the-easter-trading-laws/#comment-43447 Mon, 14 Jul 2014 00:28:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=11270#comment-43447 In reply to Paul Walker.

Ans when you “told” the job, what did it tell you back?

]]> By: Paul Walker http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2014/07/14/can-we-justify-the-easter-trading-laws/#comment-43446 Mon, 14 Jul 2014 00:19:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=11270#comment-43446 In reply to VMC.

And I told the job voluntarily.

]]> By: VMC http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2014/07/14/can-we-justify-the-easter-trading-laws/#comment-43445 Mon, 14 Jul 2014 00:08:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=11270#comment-43445 Maybe (to Paul Walker) you are the person who would have to work in the shop????

]]> By: Paul Walker http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2014/07/14/can-we-justify-the-easter-trading-laws/#comment-43444 Sun, 13 Jul 2014 23:09:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=11270#comment-43444 But why do you need shops to be closed to “enjoy a quiet day, free of temptations to hit the shops and consume”? If you don’t want to shop, then don’t, Stay at home and read a book -“The Wealth of Nations” would be good! It looks like a non-argument to me. There has to be ways for people who think like this to achieve non-consumption without creating negative exteralities for normal people.

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