{"id":1040,"date":"2007-02-13T09:03:46","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T16:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2007-02-13T10:26:49","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T17:26:49","slug":"hillary-clinton-and-rotarian-socialism-whats-wrong-with-the-nar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1040\/hillary-clinton-and-rotarian-socialism-whats-wrong-with-the-nar\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton and Rotarian Socialism: What’s wrong with the NAR?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Business Week’s Hot Property wrote yesterday about the NAR’s having gotten into bed with Hillary Clinton<\/a> — who is “sponsoring a bill that bars commercial banks from hiring real estate brokers\/agents” — but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The National Association of Realtor is routinely, habitually, congenitally<\/i> anti-free market.<\/p>\n

I’m doing the prep work to defend the traditional practice of real estate, but this is my radical yelp: The original and on-going purpose of the NAR is anti-capitalist. The organization was formed to limit entry into the residential real estate business — to push Chester the Barber and others out<\/i> of the business. The NAR wrote the original state real estate laws to achieve this goal — however poorly. This on-going legislative campaign against banks competing for real estate transactions is just more of the same: “Protecting” mediocrities from fair competition.<\/p>\n

It seems never to end. If you’re a member of the NAR, you get hit with spam about once a month about some vitally important piece of anti-free market legislation: Coerced health insurance for real estate brokerages, keep WalMart out of banking, keep banks out of real estate. The NAR is hardly alone in making appeals for legislation, so it is perhaps easy to forget that legislation is imposed by force of arms. What the NAR is doing is taking control of the massive firepower of the Federal government and deploying it to hijack potential competitors.<\/p>\n

It’s a protection racket — vicious, awful, evil crime — dressed up in Brooks Brothers suits.<\/p>\n

We are apt to think of Communism as being Capitalism’s natural enemy, but there is another, perhaps more insidious foe to unfettered laissez faire<\/i>. I call it Rotarian Socialism, just to give it a name. Rotarian Socialism is legislation written by and for the membership of a politically-powerful elite. Most of the criticisms you hear about Capitalism are in fact criticisms of Rotarian Socialism.<\/p>\n

Truly free<\/i> markets require freedom, not laws. I have argued before for getting rid of the real estate licensing laws<\/a> — or, at a minimum, eliminating the broker level of licensing — and for eliminating the real <\/a>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Business Week’s Hot Property wrote yesterday about the NAR’s having gotten into bed with Hillary Clinton — who is “sponsoring a bill that bars commercial banks from hiring real estate brokers\/agents” — but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The National Association of Realtor is routinely, habitually, congenitally anti-free market. 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