From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Wed Aug 03 2005 - 11:24:25 BST
Hi Arlo,
> We had already agreed that the MOQ places "access to information" and
> "public lands", not to mention a publicly paid for educational system, at a
> higher moral level than personal wealth (in our agreement that taxation
> should support these things). You didn't roll out the "fear Marx" scare
> tactics then, could it be because these benefit you personally? While
> helping your neighbor gives you personally no material reward? Just
> curious...
We agreed that public lands, access to information and public education
were at a "higher moral level" than personal wealth? I don't think so. I
agreed that these things were worthy of public support through the means
of taxation, but in no way consider money accumulated by force and spent
by government to be morally superior to money accumulated by work and
spent by individual citizens. Why? Because of a little matter of
individual freedom.
> And we had been making such good progress, and now we are back to
> scare-propaganda. :-(
What's scary is your thinking of personal savings as "static wealth
piles," as if no one is entitled to keep part of what he earns, or as if
such "wealth piles" are not invested in all sorts of economic activity to
produce goods, services, not to mention jobs..
Finally, you didn't deny your believe in "From each according to his
ability, to each according to his needs." Am I correct to assume you buy
that?
Platt
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