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From: mwm@ea.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal
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Date: Sun, 25-Nov-84 18:58:00 EST
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Nf-From: ea!mwm    Nov 25 17:58:00 1984

No, it's not a new idea. I posted a similar suggestion a few days ago, and
my source was an article I saw in the late 60s. The difference between
those two and what you posted was that, instead of giving away the
government held companies, that they be turned into dividend-paying stocks,
and the dividends used to fund the normal government functions (transfer
funds, etc.)

BTW, the phrase "get the government out of business" isn't usually used to
indicate that the government should let go of it's business holdings but
that it should quit trying to run businesses that it doesn't own.

	<mike