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Str8tEdge » 03 Dec 2014 2:31 am » wrote:
Blah blah blah... nder a REAL free market system, the first time a drug manufacturer killed someone with their product they'd be sued out of business bla bla blaD

You base that claim on what argument? What about unregulated capitalism would make tort juries more plaintiff friendly? Just SAYING it and two dollars gets you coffee at starbucks - not good coffee, but at least it's expensive so the rubes feel like it's quality.

And what do you mean by a REAL "free market system?" All of our exchanges came into existence through legislation. Right there, the "real" free market went buh bye.There can be no REAL free market system which involves a regulated exchange. The two are mutually exclusive.

I don't believe you have a single argument in favor of the claim that deregulating Wall Street would make juries more generous to plaintiffs. I think it just seemed like a good bluff to run. And the idea that judges would sit on their thumbs while big pharma is bankrupted is laughably naive. It takes a single gavel strike - just one - to cut an out-sized jury award in half. Indeed, that same gavel strike can quarter the award - or throw it out altogether. Civil court judges have enormous discretion, and so long as they exercise that discretion in the favor of the monied class, they are in little danger of being overturned.

I don't remember having seen any evidence that you hold ANY well-formed, defensible, principle-based positions on any topic this board has ever discussed. It seems you just toss out claims the way a crooked barkeep tallies a drunk customer's tab:: If it goes, it goes.