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To: Enigma who wrote (44743)	11/8/1999 10:11:00 PM
From: Little Joe	Respond to of 116767

DD: You are good, but there was a whole lot more going on in those countries besides suppression of a free press. Also, the question raised was not is not whether or not businesses did well, but much broader. It is simply this, if the government takes 90% of my wages, profits, etc. but lets me criticize it am I more free than if the government lets me keep 90% of my wages, profits, etc, but represses criticism. The point I make is that I question the notion that freedom of the press is more important than the freedom to keep the fruits of your labor. In the dictatorships you describe certain businessmen because of connections, etc. did well and many others did not. Also there is more to a dictatorship than repression of the press, although I will admit almost all, if not all, dictatorships do repress the press. But if we assume two countries exactly alike, but in one country taxes are confiscatory and the press is free, while in the other taxes are minimal and the press is not free, I am not prepared to say the the country with the free press is more free than the country with the confiscatory taxes. Live long and prosper, little joe