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To: tejek who wrote (190051)	6/8/2004 7:51:38 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1578072

I said pretty close. Its understood pure[100%] capitalism is near impossible. With that caveat, the US was close to that goal in the last 18th and early 19th centuries. Not really that close. Also in the 18th and 19th centuries you had subsidies and political favoritism, particularly for railroad companies and before them canal companies and other interests. Not around 1800.....we were still too new for that stuff. It got bigger later but it occured in the very early 1800s as well. There was much less in the late 1700s but there was some of "that stuff" (and also a lot of it before the revolution when the British government intervened heavily in trade). Tim