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- From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: Outgrowing Libertarianism...
- Message-ID: <52629@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 13:07:59 GMT
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- In article <23020@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> tucker@shiva.UUCP (George Tucker) writes:
- >In article <52260@dime.cs.umass.edu> yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
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- >>He was no propertarian. TJ supported public financed education, public purchase of vast
- >>stretches of land, legislation to reduce disparities in wealth, public support of
- >>manufacturing industries via taxation and tariffs, sharp limitations on "intellectual
- >>property" (patents) ... Jefferson was more concerned with human liberty and the rights
- >>of human beings than with the rights of property ownership. And Jefferson had a very
- >>strong ethic of civil duty and a belief in majority rule. He would have had nothing but
- >>contempt for the crabbed and mean-spirited money worship that is now called "libertarianism".
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- >This doesn't sound like a Thomas Jefferson that Ronald Reagan would have known.
- >You must have it wrong.
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- We all know that Ron's memory is not the best.
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