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Re: From Harry Browne
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 8 Nov 2000 09:05:40 GMT
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Powell writes:
> > (snipage)
> > > Well, James, we've already had this argument. You know darn well already
> > > that all of these things above are goods, rather than rights. And as • I've
> > > said before, there is no moral right to free goods.
> >
> > True. I however feel that _as a society_ we choose to do some things,
> > and that those things mentioned (and snipped) above are things that are
> > worth doing.
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> If you think they're worth doing, by all means, please go ahead. However
> since they involve transfers of wealth from one person to another, my
> position is that you ought to do them on your nickel, not mine. I am not • my
> brother's keeper unless I choose to be. Remember, you've conceded you • don't
> have a moral right to my wealth in order to further your charities.
Hmm this sounds very charitable. Personally, I quite happy to be a member of
society, and contribute to it passively and actively. I'm happy that around
a third of what I earn ensures that the whole of the society I live in has
access to education, health care, policing etc etc etc. The problem with
your philosophy is that it assumes that people would continue to distribute
their wealth, if their tax were to be reduced. I'm just to convinced that
would be the case. This is because a lot of us a pretty selfish and only
think of Number 1.
Scott A
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| (...) Thanks! I agree. It *is* very charitable. (...) So am I. And I think my contributions, allocated by me, are more effective than yours, allocated by bureaucrats. (...) I suspect a typo, I think you meant to say "just not convinced"... because (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) If you think they're worth doing, by all means, please go ahead. However since they involve transfers of wealth from one person to another, my position is that you ought to do them on your nickel, not mine. I am not my brother's keeper unless (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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