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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 10:40:16 -0500 From: Petro <petro@playboy.com> Subject: RE: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the Foregone (fwd)
No, I am saying that since EVERY government at one time or another treats its citizens like roaches, it's time to radically change the nature of it so that it basically can't be called a government any more.
The problem isn't government, it's the people who enforce the government that abuse it.
Well actualy it's whether it has a tax stamp whether you sell it out of a storefront or a truckbed is irrelevent. Considering the number of people wh=
Wanna bet?
Absolutely. I happen to know a whole passel of beer, wine, and liqour makers. Austin as aswim in micro-breweries. I'd be more than happy to pass your email address to the enibriated set and let them argue the point with you.
Most states have fairly strict laws concerning where liquor can be sold.
Actualy it's not the states (at least Texas and Louisiana), it's the local cities. The state of Texas doesn't care as long as you pay your liquor license and don't sell to minors and obey the local zoning ordinances. Texas Alchohol and Drug Abuse Commission 9001 N. IH-35, #105, 78753 512-349-6600 Texas Attorney General Office Taxation: 512-463-2002 Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission 512-458-2500
Which is completely irrelevant as to wheter or not it is currently black market or not, which is the context I was working in.
Stay on target.
I am on target. The fact that a unregulated alcohol industry led to death, debilitation, and financial hardship justified the imposition of regulation on alcohol and its related operations. You just don't want the entire picture painted because it cast a harsh light on the premise that un-regulated economies are good things.
Not necessarily. The doctor has to have a medicaly supportable reason to dispence those drugs. Otherwise it's just as black market as Joe's.
Quibble Quibble. You know EXACTLY what I meant.
Yeah, you meant to commit an act of ommission so that your position looks more favorable than it actualy does.
Didn't think of theft? Jesus H. Christ, you gotta be on Joe's drugs. The vast majority of material sold on *ANY* black market is stolen from its rightful owner. It is *the* example of black market trading that most folks think of first.
No, the vast majority (in terms of dollars) of stuff sold on the black market is Drugs.
Really? Drugs are what $10B US a year or so. I bet stolen automobiles when taken as a whole gross more loss than that. And what makes you think that the vast majority of that drugs aren't purchased at the street level with funds gotten from theft? The drugs may not be stolen, the dollar that they were bought with was in most cases.
Treat theft like any other economic activity, and figure out how to make it unprofitable.
Let me know when you figure that one out.
How the hell do you sell something on the black market if you don't have possession of it? And exactly who is going to prosecute anyone for
Easy, it's called a Con.
Seriously tho, I said that the _selling_ of stolen goods might not be illegal, but the possesion of such things, and the stealing of them are seperate acts to the selling of them.
Still doesn't answer my question.
There isn't a need to. Shoot them.
Ah, so you admit that the general mechanism to settle inter-personal dispute under your plan is to allow people to run around shooting each other. Well, at least we've got an honest admission that murder would be legal in this system. ____________________________________________________________________ Lawyers ask the wrong questions when they don't want the right answers. Scully (X-Files) The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------