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- Subject: Re: The socialist/fascist claptrap item #1: the "Social Contract"
- Message-ID: <93028.30209.J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 16:23:29 GMT
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- In <C1JBDH.7Ky@cup.hp.com>, Mark Runyan writes:
-
- >Phil Ronzone (phil@netcom.com) wrote:
- >>Hey George, did you sign your "Social Contract"? Nope, me neither. Hey,
- >>how about you Tony? Did you? yeah, I've never seen this "Social Contract"
- >>ion any kind of writing either, much less signed one.
-
- >Nope, you didn't sign any piece of paper, nor did you explicitly agree
- >to any form of contract. And yet you continue to use roads, electricity,
- >and water that the government provides you. It is strange that those
- >very people who most often repudiate the analogy of the social contract
- >do so while using the very advantages that their society gives them.
-
- Roads? I pay gas taxes and other taxes. Electricity and water? I pay for
- those utilities directly. Part of my water bill and PG&E bill undoubtedly
- goes to the government for providing their services. The utilities pay for
- the delivery of water or electricity, and being a business, they naturally
- pass those costs on to us.
-
- In short, I pay for everything the government provides for me. And I'll bet
- that I usually pay *more* than I would for a private-sector alternative.
-
- "Advantages?" Yes, I use government services--but I've *more than paid for my
- fair use* through my tax dollars. I hardly feel like the benevolent State
- has given me all of this out of the goddness of their heart. I feel that I
- would be far better off getting all of my tax money back, NOT using govern-
- ment services and using private sector alternatives (assuming, of course,
- that the State would *allow* private competition in some areas where it
- currently enforces its monopoly).
-
- >>What actually happens of course is that some set of people gain enough
- >>control of the means of coercion to force another set or sets of people
- >>to hand over their property at gunpoint for the first set to dispose of.
-
- >And while you make fun of the analogy of Social Contract by asking for
- >a piece of paper, allow me to ask for a picture of the gun pointing at
- >you. :-)
-
-
- Tim Irvin
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- Let's get government out of the womb, out of the bedroom and out of my wallet.
-