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ISSN 1054-0695
SHAREDEBATE INTERNATIONAL
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Volume 4(2)
Summer 1994
Diskette number 15
(BBS Filename: DBATE015)
Roleigh H. Martin, Editor
Copyright 1994 by Applied Foresight Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
(Material by Individual Authors
May Be Copyrighted Differently)
Published by
Applied Foresight, Inc.
P.O. Box 20607
Bloomington MN 55420, USA
CompuServe ID: 71510,1042
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-- A Freeware Diskette-Magazine of Nonfiction & Fiction ---
------- Original & Reprints -- Published Quarterly -------
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----- "An International Debate Forum for Computer Users ---
-------- Concerned about the Present and the Future" ------
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From the Editor's Desk:
Hello again! I had originally planned to focus on
the actual legislation of the Clinton Health Act this
issue, however it seems to be dead although some form
of socialist plan might be passed and in many ways
these Democrat-Congress-sponsored plans feature many of
the Clinton's socialist features but in a more hidden
manner. For this reason, I am including two popular
freeware files and one Policy Review Magazine Reprint
on health care.
This will be a very short intro column this issue;
the magazine entries are interesting enough to stand by
themselves. I've included some great Libernet postings
from the Internet -- don't think that I agree
wholeheartedly with each article, but they're
definitely interesting enough that we should widely
know about them. They sure beat much of what the
popular media feeds you!
Dan Druck, of the Council on Domestic Relations
(CDR), has provided ShareDebate International with more
interesting material. In one item, he goes on a
tangent on our alleged trade imbalance with Japan which
is an area I disagree with him completely, but
otherwise he brings to our attention the most alarming
news I've read in eons--that Congress is considering a
dual currency--one for foreigners and another for
domestic consumption. That nightmare is something
previously only practices in statist mercantilist (such
as used to be the case up to a year or so ago in India)
or for communist countries. We must defeat this bill!
Read the first piece in the file CDR.TXT!
Neil Schulman, a past contributor to ShareDebate
International again contributes by granting written
permission to reprint his now BBS famous file in
defense of the 2nd amendment. He has a book on the
subject out now and one of his defenses of the second
amendment appeared as a recent article in the National
Review. His book is Stopping Power: Why 70 Million
Americans Own Guns Synapse/Centurion Books, 1994.
As for my own ideas on gun control, I lean towards
the NRA stance but I do recognize that there has to be
limits to the types of guns owned--for when there are
rifle-sized atomic bomb guns, I don't think anybody
should be able to acquire them! But I disagree with
the liberal's current legislative proposals -- what
I've read leads me to assess that more people will be
killed not being able to defend themselves in time than
will those be saved through the measures. Let's put it
this way, would you want to live in a town that
outlawed all guns except for the police and criminals?
I wouldn't! Many of the accidents with guns could be
minimized if we had laws mandating gun safety awareness
knowledge (similar to driving license tests); if we
required locked-gun lockers -- nothing big, just large
enough to hold the gun -- to contain loaded guns in
homes occupied by children for when the guns were not
in use. The locks could be digital so that in an
emergency, one could get his loaded gun out in less
than 3-4 seconds.
Proceeding on, a paper of my own is included on
how to privatize welfare and eliminate its tax-based
funding through a double-value tax deduction. I was
asked by two Minnesota state legislators to write up
this idea for legislative proposal analysis which it is
undergoing now. I met these two legislators at the
1994 Minnesota GOP state convention where I was a
seated delegate. (I was an alternate but because of
no-shows, I was able to be seated and eligible to
vote.)
I know you'll like this issue!
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MAGAZINE CONTENTS
Because this issue is quite long, the individual
entries are not all collapsed into this file. That way
readers on non-MSDOS computers who don't have an ASCII
file reader that can read in massively large files can
read this issue -- all files are under 50KB apiece.
Also all readers can quickly "jump" to the pieces that
most interest them. This makes printing out what
interests a person most convenient and avoids wasting
paper and time. I hope you like this arrangement.
LIST OF FILES AND CONTENT DESCRIPTIONS:
CDR.TXT
(Miscellaneous CDR e-mailings)
* Government Plans 2 Currencies for USA
* Colorado State Sovereignty Resolution
by Dan Druck, Council on Domestic Relations
DBLVALUE.TXT
Privatizing Welfare By Funding It
With a Double-Value Tax Deduction:
Imagine Cutting Welfare Taxes 71 Percent Less
But Increasing Welfare Handouts Over Threefold!
by Roleigh Martin
FRANKEN.TXT
Clinton's Frankenstein:
The Gory Details of the President's Health Plan
by Robert E. Moffit
(A Policy Review magazine reprint)
HCRIGHT1.TXT
Health Care Is Not a Right
by Leonard Peikoff, Ph.D.
(An Internet Newsgroup Posting Reprint)
HCRIGHT2.TXT
Is There a Right to Health Care?
by David Kelley, Ph.D.
(A Widely Available Posted File Reprint)
LIBERNET.TXT
(Miscellaneous Internet Libernet Postings)
Global Warming: Apocalypse or Hot Air?
An Institute of Economic Affairs (UK) Press Release
Proposed Oregon Property Ownership Act
by Ed Snook (Liberty Network) and Kevin Starret
SCHULMAN.TXT
REPLY TO THE EXECUTIVES OF
THE ACLU OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
ON THE MEANING OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT
By J. Neil Schulman
Author, Stopping Power:
Why 70 Million Americans Own Guns
Synapse/Centurion Books, 1994
(An Internet Newsgroup Posting Reprint)
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End of this section of ShareDebate International;
Information about the magazine, distribution policy,
copyright statement, subscription and/or back-issue
orders is in the file, SI_MISC.TXT
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