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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Financing the government of a free s
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Date: Sun, 23-Jun-85 11:08:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 23 11:08:00 1985
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> Just because the government offers contract enforcement services doesn't
> mean that nobody else will.  Indeed, the government is so bad at this that
> arbitration groups are becoming increasingly popular.

That's certainly true.  The Mafia, for example, has very effective ways
of enforcing their contracts.

But since I believe that the government should have a legal monopoly
on the use of force against people, it should not be legal for anyone
but the government to enforce contracts.