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To: jttmab who wrote (14578)	6/10/2002 7:49:13 AM
From: Ish	Respond to of 21057

<<How much of the Roman operating expenses were supplemented through pillaging and plundering?>> None. First you have to plunder and then you pillage.

To: jttmab who wrote (14578)	6/10/2002 11:45:45 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

How much of the Roman operating expenses were supplemented through pillaging and plundering? LOL! It was, as we have noted, built on slave labor -- which Fears says is the economic equivalent of oil to our economy.

To: jttmab who wrote (14578)	6/10/2002 6:13:13 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

Farm subsidies, I don't get a subsidy, but I get lower produce prices as a result; I'm a secondary beneficiary to the subsidies. In many cases its higher prices as a result. And of course if you include the costs of the subsidies themselves then it is much higher prices. Very interesting. How much of the Roman operating expenses were supplemented through pillaging and plundering? OK lets say it's half (which I doubt). And lets say that we need to double the 1% (to make up for the lack of good pillaging oportunities) and then double that again to get decent services, hell even double it a third time. I could live with a normal top rate of 8%... Tim