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To: Road Walker who wrote (353842)	10/5/2007 4:34:18 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573504

I didn't say you used the words "call for anarchy", I said you treat the argument as if it was a call for anarchy. Or in other words you respond as if the other person was calling for anarchy. You don't even want children to have health insurance for God's sake. You just provided the perfect example of what Bastiat complained about over 150 years ago. "Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain." - Frédéric Bastiat, The Law --- Beyond that in this case I haven't even been making an argument against a government subsidy of insurance for the poor, merely against extending that subsidy to those who have enough wealth to be able to afford insurance without any such subsidy.