kfl@AI.AI.MIT.EDU (01/05/87)
From: Willie Lim <WLIM@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Despite all your objections to government subsidies, you are
actually dependent on one.
I would say I USE one (several actually); I am not DEPENDENT on one.
I also use the public roads, ride the subsidized bus, work on
government contracts at work, and put out the trash for the town to
haul away, etc. I am sorry if this makes me ideologically impure by
your standards. I would be glad to give it all up in a minute if I
could thereby exempt myself from all taxes.
...Keith
-------WLIM@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU (01/05/87)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <KFL@MX.LCS.MIT.EDU> I am sorry if this makes me ideologically impure by your standards. I would be glad to give it all up in a minute if I could thereby exempt myself from all taxes. Keith, I didn't mean to pick on you. I was just trying to illustrate the tendency of people to exploit (and perhaps knowingly or unknowingly become dependent on) handouts be it from the government or from private sources. The problem with handouts from the government is that the accountability system is so weak and/or the time lag is so long that such abuses never get effectively curbed. Willie ------- -------