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  2. Newsgroups: sci.econ
  3. Subject: Re: Empty Philosophies
  4. Message-ID: <1992Aug18.224301.3589@desire.wright.edu>
  5. From: demon@desire.wright.edu (Stupendous Man)
  6. Date: 18 Aug 92 22:43:01 EST
  7. References: <BsIDwM.CDq@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <51634@dime.cs.umass.edu> <1992Aug12.003453.3536@informix.com> <51987@dime.cs.umass.edu>
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  12. In article <51987@dime.cs.umass.edu>, yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
  13. > In article <1992Aug12.003453.3536@informix.com> proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts) writes:
  14. >>Yep, listening to lib'ians telling us that they "don't like paying
  15. >>taxes, shouldn't have to pay taxes, not gonna pay taxes" reminds
  16. >>me of listening to 5 year olds asserting that all they want to eat
  17. >>is ice cream, and they shouldn't have to eat anything else, and
  18. >>they won't, so there.
  19. > 
  20. > I have a different impression. This "it's mine, it's mine" ranting
  21. > of the propertarians reminds me of nothing so much as teenage 
  22. > "stay out of my room"-ism.
  23.  
  24.     "you must redistribute your income, and I'll do it for you" sounds like
  25. Robin Hood.
  26.  
  27.     Pity that in real life the redistributors have an overhead that would
  28. sink any corporation.
  29.  
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