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To: epicure who wrote (6309)	12/7/2005 12:11:04 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542169

I don't know anybody who doesn't benefit from government, either -- although the cost-benefit analysis may be hard to calculate, as it is bound to be, in large part, subjective. For example, childless people may resent paying for public schools, and may not be persuaded that they're better off because the country is inhabited by educated people like doctors, engineers, nurses, computer programmers, and so forth. Hard core anarchists may not find it persuasive that they're benefitting from public roads and other large scale public works, since they can imagine that private entrepreneurs are champing at the bit to provide private roads and private dams and private levees if only the government would butt out!