Maybe general would be a better word that common or offical because
a supermajority speak English, so the government needs to write
documents in the language of the super majority at least but it can
include other languages especially if a sizeable minority uses that
laguage or the document pertains to business with a ceratin laguage
group, maybe the Traiff Schedules should be in Chinese as well. By
the way custom duties would be libertarian if the dockowner has a
clear cut right to secede, the duties would be a membership fee, if
the dockowner did not want to be a member the government would move
the custom collection station just on the outside of the dockowners
property and collect the dues as the trucks leave the dockowners
property. If the custome duties were not very high in mosr cases the
dockowner would probally perfer to allow the collection of the custom
duties to keep his property in the US, especially if he got a
percentage of the
collection.
In some tourist towns the merchants have one price for the
tourist and another price for the local residence, in some cases all
or just about all of the merchants do this and they do it without
government coresion, now these discounts are often as much as 10%,
usally at least 5% and sometimes as much as 20%, they see the value
in either giving the discount to the residence or the tourist. I
think the government could sell a membership fee or other types of
service fees if enough people see the value in them.--- In
[email protected], "Cory Nott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> While I agree with much of what you have written here, I'm
wondering - what
> language should the tariff schedules be printed in if and when we
have a
> libertarian government?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Behalf Of Paul
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 10:09 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Libertarian] Re: Immigration
>
>
> False. English is not the common language of America. America
has no
> common language. The language of America is English, Spanish,
French,
> German, Dutch, Greek, Italian, Polish, Chinese, Vietnamese,
Japanese,
> Russian, Swedish, Hindu, Arabic, Hebrew, etc.
>
> Many Mexican people have learned English, and many don't. The
same
> was true of the European immigrants. Some of them didn't learn
> English for several generations. Most were treated harshly and
they
> retreated into neighborhoods of their own people to escape from
this
> kind of oppression. They felt welcome with their own people and
their
> own language, even in a new country.
>
> Learning English doesn't make you more American. It doesn't mean
you
> try harder. English is most certainly not the common language
either.
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
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