Date sent: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:37:10 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Scarazzo <mscarazzo@rocketmail.com> Subject: Re: The Education Function To: extropians@extropy.com Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
> ---"Joe E. Dees" <jdees0@students.uwf.edu> wrote:
Wrong yet again. Have you ever heard the phrase "corporate
welfare"? It's other meaning is "double citizen taxation."
> > The gap between reality and ideality is a large one. The difference
> > between rational action and the way people and corporations
> > actually act is equally large. BTW, corporations coerce people now,
> > by means of their influence on government (eminent domain to steal
> > your property for a new factory, for example). I'm sure they would
> > only increase the level of such coercion, were they able to apply it
> > directly. Joe
>
> I disagree that people in groups such as corporations act
> irrationally. The determination depends on your viewpoint. From
> their POV, they are looking out for their best interest: making
> money. Through your own statement, you have concluded that government
> is bad. The corporations are given power by the government, because
> the corporations make money. The government wants money for nothing.
> Government allows certain corporations to flourish so that those in
> government power gain from it. The government is the influence.
> Without government (or at least as we know it today), those
> corporations who would have tried to use your land that the GOVERNMENT
> said they could use would have to compensate you, if you desired, for
> you to move. Today there is no check on government and that is the
> problem. It is not the corporations who are seizing business
> oppotunities.
actually, on the other end of the shaft)! Joe> DO YOU YAHOO!?
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