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> I don't understand.  We already have universal access to e-mail and
> the Internet.  Anyone who *wants* to buy it, *can* buy it, typically
> for less than the cost of their telephone or cable subscription.
> That's universal access.  Why are you proposing to do something which
> is already a reality?

I read your URL.  As Russ said, email is cheap enough that anybody who
wants it can buy it.  Are you proposing to subsidize it down to
"free", so you can assume everyone has it, and then the government can
use it to communicate?

Perhaps you should back up a few steps, and justify why it's in the
middle and upper class' interests to give money to the poor.  I would
expect to see arguments like "if you turn the poor into peasants they
will riot", "feudalism takes most players out of the economic game",
etc.  Justify handouts to the poor as an investment in middle and
upper class lifestyle.  I'm sure there's something to your position,
just explain to me what it is.  Treat it as an exercise to teach
idiots like me who came through the US school system.


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