Below the fold is a video link to a debate between Professor Walter Block and Sam Seder on The Majority Report.
Some of the highlights:
Argument against minimum wage- Is 6 more than zero? Is it? You admit it? Well, if a black kid in Harlem could get 6, it would be better than zero, right? You admit that?
He uses Frederick Douglass' words to support the idea that the main problem with slavery is that it prevented the individual the right to free association. In this respect, the Civil Rights act is much like slavery...hey, hey, hey, it's just not as bad, but it's pretty much the same thing.
Yes, I said Frederick Douglass.
In the prof's world, every worker gets exactly their value in productivity. Seriously.
In the prof's world, a business should be able to turn away anyone it wants, because gay people and straight people turn away people when it comes to selecting sex partners.
He argues that punishing businesses that discriminate would be like punishing homosexuals for not having sex with straight people. Really.
"Hey, Hey, Hey!" That's what he says. About a million times. He probably spends roughly 4 minutes of the time chiding the host of the radio show for interrupting.
I think my favorite bit was when the diehard libertarian economics professor complained to the guy who owns his own radio show that he was supposed to "share" the show.
Eventually, he did share the show. The professor got more than thirty minutes to Sam's 18.
I've been listening to Sam Seder for years now. I remember driving near the University District listening to Dailykos' Armando on the radio with Janeane Garofolo and Sam Seder. Those wacky kids were trying to do a new kind of radio show back in the early days of political blogging when saying stuff on blogs could get you write ups in newspapers and get you spots on the radio.
Sam is still operating The Majority Report, and he's doing it live, five days a week.
One ongoing part of the show is that Sam has a constant invitation out to any libertarian who would like to to call in and debate him.
A funny thing that happens is that many of the libertarians start to complain that some other libertarian would know much better. You know, like professors and stuff.
Yesterday, Sam Seder had about a forty minute long debate with a professor from Loyala Business college.
I highly recommend watching.
The video is to an introduction which has links to the two parts of the video.
12:10 PM PT: I just wanted to add another note about some of the things he's talking about.
His main argument on the minimum wage boils down to, "Is 6 more than zero?"
He likes to use examples like, "Take the black kid on welfare in harlem..."