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Scripsit edwardk@aimnet.aimnet.com (Edward N. Kurmudgeon) :

 # : Listen up folks -- this is Marxism talking here!  Sorry Edward. Travis' idea
 # : may be a little naive but the essence of his proposal is just.  We must pay
 # : for what we get -- not what we have already earned!!!  In the scenario you
 # : attempted, the effort to protect Bill Gates would concurrently protect Travis
 # : -- same service, same price.  By your logic  Bill Gates should pay more for
 # : food than Travis -- simply because he had the audacity to innovate more
 # : effectively than Travis.  And that sir is Socialism in its most vile form:
 # : "..from each according to ability; to each according to need..." and other
 # : such Marxist tripe.
 # 
 # Don't be silly.  It's capitalism at it's best.  It's charging what the market
 # will bear.  Ask Bill Gates how much he will pay to protect his 2 billion
 # dollars a year appreciation in his MazelTov stock, and ask me how much
 # I will pay to protect my meagre income.

Fine. Then let's give him a REAL choice: He can pay the government or he can
make his own arrangements.

Your fanciful scenario is all hot air, because a real choice doesn't exist --
and without a real choice, sorry, it ain't capitalism.


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