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From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Propiganda, Sevener, Sykora, and MMT
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Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 13:24:23 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  4 13:24:23 1985
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> >/**** inmet:net.politics / whuxl!orb / 10:42 am  May 28, 1985 ****/
> >I repeat the phrase "blind adherence to the free enterprise myth" because
> >that's what is repeated by Michael Sykora and many others on the net.
> >When Mr. Sykora suggests that it is some sort of crime for *anyone* to pay
> >taxes then I find this a ludicrous assumption even on the part of many
> >Libertarians who in general support the myth that somehow leaving the
> >government totally out of the economy will resort in the laissez faire 
> >utopia.  
> 
Alright, then you *don't* call it "Utopia".  The idea that you can have
a situation of:
    no taxes
    no inflation
    no poverty
    no unemployment
    no monopoly power
    no pollution (without government intervention)
    no health hazards in the workplace (without govt intervention)
      etc.
Whatever you wish to call it, I consider totally untenable.
 
All of these have been advanced as likely outcomes of Libertarianism
on this net.

I would say such notions are, if not called "utopia", definitely
utopian.
                       tim sevener   whuxl!orb