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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: average joe who wrote (494218)7/4/2012 10:00:04 PM
From: Brian Sullivan  Read Replies (2) of 794149
 
This is just the old tale of the libertarians dilemma:

He left the section of a south Florida beach his company is paid to patrol.

It the same thing as privately run Fire Departments. If a group of people get together to provide private fire protection services what happens to the neighbor down the road who doesn't sign up with the private fire protection service.
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