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Re: From Harry Browne
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 8 Nov 2000 20:13:11 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
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> > As an outsider looking in, they read like they will make worse most of the
> > things which I perceive as being problems in the US - Drugs, Gun Ownership
> > and lack of what we in the UK call a welfare state.
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> In what way does it seem to you like any of these things are a problem in the
> US? I mean that seriously. I suspect that I will disagree completely, but I'm
> really interested in the vision from outside.
I thought that was pretty clear. I think:
1. Too many people are getting shot.
2. Big drugs problem.
3. Poor welfare system.
Are these things related - I think so. Will handing out guns & LSD whilst
cutting back education and health make it any better - I doubt it.
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> > Further, has anyone
> > asked him how such a sudden drop in Tax will effect inflation - keeping in
> > mind your economy is already overheating?
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> I don't know. Really. That would be one of the huge number of difficulties in
> getting here from there. It is generally accepted among minarchists that the
> transition is the problem. And no one has all the answers.
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> > I'm sure if I were a right winger, holed up in the in my bunker in the
> > Montana mountains (with 2 years supply of Dried Food, Bottled Water and
> > Bullets) HB's manifesto would make pretty good reading.
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> Is this just a cheap insulting pot shot, or are you emphasizing that the
> transition would be rough and chaotic?
Sorry for any offence - I did not mean this was the LP. I meant those in the
their bunkers right now may like it - but I doubt they vote anyway.
Scott A
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> > I'd love to see what the demographics of his support is(?).
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> Me too.
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> Chris
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| (...) I agree. Almost any is too many. But the evidence shows that in places where gun-readiness increases, crime decreases. So I don't agree with your path to improvement. (...) What problem? Some people use them, and they shoot their lives away (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) In what way does it seem to you like any of these things are a problem in the US? I mean that seriously. I suspect that I will disagree completely, but I'm really interested in the vision from outside. (...) I don't know. Really. That would be (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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