kfl%mx.lcs.mit.edu@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU (08/06/86)
From: <ucsbcsl!uncle@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> about 1/2 of 1 percent of the US population posesses about 1/3 of the total assests of the US References please? I am sure this is completely false. Severing critical context from the public discourse is a Hauptmethedologie and a Hauptziel of reaganism Could we have an english translation please? ASSERTION: TOO MUCH POWER IN THE HANDS OF TOO FEW IS BAD. Agreed. ASSERTION: MONEY ISSSSSS POWER, JUST AS MUCH SO AS THE POLITICAL POWER OF ANY KOMISSAR. False. Government power is the power to coerce others. This includes the power to rob, to imprison, to torture, and to kill. Money is the power to freely trade with others. This includes the power to trade money or other wealth with anyone who would rather have the money or other wealth offered than what he is willing to offer in trade for it. It also includes the power to refuse to make such a trade. Nothing more. There is no obviously no comparison between these two kinds of power. TAX "Reform"???? "Flat Tax" = trojan horse II. I would rather see a flat tax than the present byzantine system, but what I really want is a voluntary tax. FREEDOM AND JUSTICE do not require or depend upon reaganism, they are ANTIPODAL to reaganism. Reagan is not the issue. He is just one man. Government in all its forms is the issue. ...Keith -------