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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (2551)	10/11/2006 11:22:49 AM
From: TimF	of 10087

I don't see how the equal vs. equivalent distinction is important in this context. Change every one of my uses of the term "equal" to "equivalent" and it doesn't change my points. The points are 1 - I didn't say that patents were a subsidy. 2 - I did say that they are interventions by government, and I stand by that statement. 3 - I recognized that they are intended to be beneficial. I recognized that they probably are beneficial, perhaps greatly so, but I don't think this changes the fact that they are government interventions in the market or that they are examples of government support for technologies. Re: Creating more benefit to mankind than almost all of the actions of government combined - Possibly but that doesn't make it something other than a government intervention. "It is programmatic" Programmatic? "of, relating to, resembling, or having a program " webster.com 1. Of, relating to, or having a program. 2. Following an overall plan or schedule thefreedictionary.com I'm not sure what you mean. Government allowing you to retain property rights on your domicile does not appear to be a government intervention either Government respecting your property rights isn't equivalent to government granting you a monopoly right to produce or sell a type of item. The fact that this limited monopoly might actually be greatly beneficial doesn't change the fact that it is a government granted monopoly. merely a programmatic result of your paying your property taxes. In a certain a sense that is true. The "property tax program" takes away your property if you don't pay your taxes, and doesn't usually do so if you do pay your taxes. OTOH I don't think that is a very useful sense to consider property rights. Your property rights are neither merely or inherently part of some government program.

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