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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: net.auto,net.singles
Subject: Re: Seat belts
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Date: Wed, 8-May-85 20:09:11 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  8 20:09:11 1985
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> In article <> holmes@dalcs.UUCP (Ray Holmes) writes:
> >gail@calmasd.UUCP (Gail B. Hanrahan) writes:
> >>The REAL issue is, should the government(s) be making laws
> >>*requiring* people to wear seat belts just because it's "for
> >>your own good"?  Can we next expect legislation requiring us to
> >>take vitamins, as well?  [sarcasm]
> >There is a difference here; the government has to pay to clean up the mess!
> >					Ray
> 
> Gail has the important point, although she (he?) understates it a bunch.  
> Ray, on the other hand, falls into the standard Welfarist traps:  the
> fallacy that "the government" can be financially responsible for anything,
> ...
>
> To dismiss the first fallacy:  "the government" doesn't--and can't--pay to
> clean up the mess.  The government, if we adhere to the second fallacy,
> merely acts as disbursing agent, to make us victims, uh, taxpayers, pay to
> clean up the mess.
> --Bill Price

You're picking nits here.  The difference between the "government" and
"us taxpayers" is not relevant.  The point is that *my* money is going,
through whatever channels, to clean up the mess.  Whether the government
should take the responsibility or not, they *are* doing it.

I don't want to pay for the nitwits that don't wear belts.

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