And my last go-round on this one... [Platt] For the exception, the policy and military, yes. For the rest, no.
[Arlo] Proving that taxation to support social infrastructure enables freedom. [Platt] All these things free, like "free roads and waterways?" I guess to you the power to tax is the power to provide freebies. Some "critical thinking" I must say. Some "liberty." [Arlo] Yes, I'd say public lands, public roads and waterways, public libraries... all these things increase my liberty, indeed, increase everyone's liberty. The next time I am basking in the sun on my little rowboat, with a line in the water, sipping a cold beer in one of Pennsylvania's wonderful state parks, having driven there on free roads, maybe reading "I am a Strange Loop" checked out from my local public library, I'll just smile when I think of how you find all that "destructive to liberty". And maybe on the way back I'll stop in at a public museum, since they too destroy my liberty, and take in the art. All the while breathing the clean air and dipping my feet in the clear waters, kept this way by government environmental and land management programs. A threat to liberty? Hehehehe... [Platt] Why not tenure for everybody? Is a faculty somehow elite, to be treated differently than the rest of us peons? Why not tenure for Imus? [Arlo] I don't know. Start an organization to demand tenure for radio talk show hosts. What do I care? [Platt] You want to tax for all sorts of things besides those who defend liberty. That's when you said otherwise. [Arlo] Social infrastructure provides liberty. [Platt] And we should let it go at that? Not even an apology from your precious, protected faculty? [Arlo] I have nothing to apologize for, nor control over those who may. Write to them. Over and out. moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
