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Re: Alternatives to the Bailout Swindle

On Oct 6, 10:23 pm, retrogro...@comcast.net wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:39:19 -0400, Joseph K. <ni...@none.com> wrote:
>
> >>But the answer is in a constant adjustment of tensions and balancing
> >>interests, not in simplistic  "solutions" like minimizing
government.
>
> >Minimizing gov't is not simplistic. Currently, the State is the major
> >business in all countries, collecting about 27-30% of GDP in the USA,
> >for example. Such a mammoth parasite should be extracted carefully,
> >piece by piece, in a very long and complicated surgical procedure.
>
> Your conclusory language doesn't make it so. Calling it a parasite is
> a conclusion not a proof.  You get a million benefits, protection,
> security, clean water and food, sewage, epidemic protection, rights
> protection, and organized and enforced system of property definition
> and protection and courts to resolve disputes. Those things cost. You
> ignore far too many of the benefits. I would guess you're not even
> aware of many of them. You can look to countries with lower tax
> burdens - you will find them far less enjoyable generally. Similarly
> look at the states with more taxes in the US. Would you prefer to live
> in a society like Conn. or Mississippi?


He said that the state was a major business and a parasite,
but not that it didn't provide benefits to its host.  A wise
parasite provides enough benefits, and restrains its appetites
enough,  to keep its host going.  Here in the U.S. we may
have gotten a dumber sort of parasite, however.

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