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Edward N. Kurmudgeon<edwardk@aimnet.aimnet.com> wrote:

>Jim Miller Jr. (jmillerjr@lsfcu.org) wrote:
>: >  Ok, incidentally, we also protect everyone's property.
>: >Shouldn't we charge something for doing that?
>
>: The federal government should not. That should be left to the states who
>: impelement the police departments charged with this job. Anything the
>: federal gov't does is merely incidental to the job of protecting the freedom
>: to accumulate further property beyond the self.
>
>Many kinds of properties have no geographical situ, or are outside the
>jurisdictions of local governments.  For example, patents and copyrights,
>American companies' assets overseas, right of access to foreign markets,
>money in transit in a wire transfer between banks accounts of a foreign
>country and a U.S. bank, or bonds issued by the federal government.  I
>don't see how, for example, negotiating American companies' rights to sell
>goods in Japan is incidental to protecting our freedom, or passing laws that
>impose tariffs on goods from countries that refuse to crack down on their
>citizens pirating the intellectual properties of American goods is incidental
>to protecting our freedom.

You're right, these are not incedental, these are expressly protections of
freedom. It is best explained by Madison in the Federalist Papers, number
10, I believe. It tells how the protection of peoples unique faculties for
collecting wealth is what the government exists to protect, and this
inherently results in a government that must protect the resulting
differences in the type and amount of wealth accumulated. It's all based
on freedom.

>  Even the Gulf War was not fought to protect
>our freedom, as it would be quite a stretch to say Saddam Hussein threatens
>the American way of life.

Who said the government was right to be there in the first place?




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