[rollei_list] Re: OT - Taxes
- From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 18:52:16 -0700
Marc,
According to my Libertarian source, there should be NO government
provided services. The private sources should provide all that people
can need and pay for.
Of course, he is more of an Anarchist than you are. In fact, my wife calls
him an AntiChrist, not an Anarchist. She is a devout Church of Scotland
member.
Jerry
Marc James Small wrote:
> At 03:31 PM 4/21/05 -0400, Ardeshir Mehta wrote:
>
> >I agree that government-provided services could be provided more=20
> >EFFICIENTLY.
> >
> >However, they ARE provided more efficiently in many cases than=20
> >PRIVATELY-provided services. Take for instance medical care. There was=20
> >an article recently - which I have copied at the end of this post -=20
> >showing that privately-provided medical services such as those in the=20
> >US cost much MORE than those provided by the government - so much more,=20
> >in fact, that there's no comparison.
>
> Ard
>
> The NEW YORK TIMES is the journal of the Moderate Left, in the US, and is
> not an unbiased source: they grind their political agenda into every
> article they print. They could not run an article on the discovery of yet
> another extra-solar planet without making a comment on the limited
> resources available to those of us on this Earth and how the Gummit is the
> mechanism best able to administer it.
>
> And "journalistic ethics" does not apply to the NYT, nor has it for the
> past fifty years or more. It is, at best, a laughable journal of a decided
> political bent.
>
> Find me an equivalent article in, say, THE NATIONAL REVIEW, and it would
> have a lot more credibility.
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx=20
> Cha robh b=E0s fir gun ghr=E0s fir!
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