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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: The other role of the welfare state
Message-ID: <188@looking.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Sep-84 00:00:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 21 00:00:00 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Sep-84 07:30:01 EDT
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Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont
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You play rich people off as stupid, which, if they made their own wealth,
is the opposite to the truth.  You think you can realize that there is long
term value in things like education, sanitation, health care, and other things
that discourage slums?   They can too, you know.  They don't need you to show
them the one true way, thanks.  They especially don't need you to force them
along the one true path at gunpoint, as you do today.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if the government didn't take
half the nations GNP and use it with very low efficiency?  If they left it
in the hands of peope who are PROVEN experts at production.  It looks
very likely that the gnp that actually gets to each person would increase.
Even if the rich took a bigger share, that share could get very big before
they started taking money away from the poor, couldn't it?

The point is that in a free society, I would contribute to certain
welfare programs.  Of my own free will, thanks.  So would many others.


Most of the problems you suggest are, as usual, solved by my Netonomics
EFT money system.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473