Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watdragon!hwarkentyne
From: hwarkentyne@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Kenneth Warkentyne)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Communism
Message-ID: <5549@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 88 20:51:22 GMT
Reply-To: hwarkentyne@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Kenneth Warkentyne)
Distribution: ont
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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> - Brad Templeton
>> - Me

>>Well Brad, how could a welfare system work if citizens could opt out
>>if they so chose?
>
>	And then in the next sentence:
>
>>Since there appears to be a consensus in support
>>of the current system...

>To which I say, if you think citizens would opt out in vast numbers if they
>could, I don't know how you claim that there "appears to be" a concenus.

Brad makes a mistake here.  I never said anything about "vast numbers".
I don't think it takes too much intelligence to realise that a small
number of citizens opting out of the current system could greatly damage it.
It's already bad enough with our corporate citizens escaping taxes
through dubious loopholes.

Ken Warkentyne