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Peter Bagge

Comic: Frédéric Bastiat Belabors (What Should Be) the Obvious

Peter Bagge | From the February 2022 issue

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  1. Earth-based Human Skeptic   3 years ago

    Sorry, when I was a child I thought comics were fun and perhaps enlightening. Now, not so much.

    1. sarcasmic   3 years ago

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    2. Hank Phillips   3 years ago

      The heartbreak of dementia... tsk tsk...

      1. Make Democrats Extinct   3 years ago

        How do you deal with it? Whatever medications you’re taking don’t appear to help your comments here.

    3. m4019597   3 years ago

      This isn’t a comic. It’s a political commentary, which isn’t funny or well-drawn.

  2. Delroy   3 years ago

    Is this the ending for all libertarian-leaning people? To be undone by the more numerous idiots voting for "free stuff" and "rights"?

  3. sarcasmic   3 years ago

    "WHY, MY WORK HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN!"

    And that year he died from tuberculosis.

  4. Alan Vanneman   3 years ago

    Funny stuff! Too bad poor Frédéric didn't live long enough to see the 1860 Treaty of Commerce between Great Britain and France that, among other things, reduced British import duties on wine, leading to an influx of "Gladstone claret" into Great Britain.

    In fact, the British "Corn Laws" didn't have much effect on grain prices, much to the disappointment of Britain's mill owners, who hoped to be able to cut wages when bread prices fell. It wasn't until the late 19th century, when ocean going steam ships cut transportation costs enough to create a true international market for grain that British landowners began to feel the pinch.

  5. Eeyore   3 years ago

    Depressing.

  6. Hank Phillips   3 years ago

    Bagge is doing the best work out there to identify and interpret the best and most practical thinkers in history. This is exemplary stuff!

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  10. The Encogitationer   3 years ago

    Bastiat had wonderful ideas, but if I were him, I would have used a banner on The Montgolier Brothers hot air balloon thingie or Samuel Morse's new gizmo as the medium rather than expose others to the Coof of Death.

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  14. Jgalt1975   3 years ago

    While I'm a big fan of Bastiat, I'm not quite sure what the point of this strip was. Is Bagge just doing a series on historical economists or something?

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