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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Want _Your_ Blood to
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.212155.26557@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <2151.110.uupcb@cutting.hou.tx.us>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:21:55 GMT
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- In <2151.110.uupcb@cutting.hou.tx.us> david.brooks@cutting.hou.tx.us (David Brooks) writes:
-
- > What you are saying, in effect, is: given a choice, people will not
- > support their government. I would think that in itself would constitute
- > more than enough reason to close them all down. Any "service" currently
- > provided by the government could also be performed by a free economy,
- > and probably at a decent profit too. Your "cops and roads" argument
- > just dosn't hold any water!
-
- No, what he is saying, in effect, is that for those things which they
- could use if someone else bought them, many people will not chip in
- 'their share'. A study of the concepts of 'externality' and 'public
- good' would seem to be in order. This is the biggest whole in the
- whole libertarian economic argument.
-
- [See any reasonably decent economics textbook.]
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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- Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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