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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Newsflash! [Subsidized Education](Really Libertarianism)
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Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 13:10:22 EDT
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> [Mike Huybenz, replying to J. Storrs Hall]
> It seems you haven't progressed beyond freedom or dignity because you
> still don't understand them.  You seem to think your freedom to climb
> to the top of the economic heap is worth being able to trample on the
> backs of others, whom you'll freely grant the freedom to starve.
> 
> (Paraphrase)  How noble libertarianism, in it's majestic equality, that
> both rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the privately
> owned streets (without paying), sleeping under the privately owned
> bridges (without paying), and coercing bread from its rightful owners!

> [End of sarcasm and rhetoric.  Phew.  Good thing I don't do this too often.]
-- 
What sarcasm?  Mike has accurately summed up the consequences of
extreme Libertarianism in a nutshell.  Mike, please do this MORE often.
-- 
Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan