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To: Ilaine who wrote (54778)	8/17/2000 1:56:43 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Well beliefs are just that. Unprovable. But I think we can see that spending nothing or very little didn't work (it's been tried) and spending what we spend NOW doesn't work. So what you are willing to support is guaranteed to make things no "better" in the sense of pushing people in the direction I want them to go. As for exploitation- absolutely. If you come at things with that in mind I think you can set up a system you WANT people to exploit. I know what I want people to exploit. Quality education, healthy food, good healthcare. The flaw in the ointment with my ideas is that it will never be tried here, or at least not in the near future. Where it has been tried- in highly socialized countries, it DOES seem to promote social harmony. Of course there is a tremendous cost. You don't want to pay that. Someday maybe you'll have to, if we ever become more socialist- or you can always relocate, with all those GUNS. Forcing you to take care of people isn't tyranny if a democracy DECIDES (by the vote of a majority of it's citizens) that that's what it wants to do (of course the US isn't a democracy- I am simply addressing the fallacy of what you said generally). It merely makes YOU a disgruntled minority at that point. It would only be tyranny if a tyrant of some sort, who did NOT represent the popular will, forced people to take care of one another.