A CC of my letter to Gelernter at cs.yale.edu

[Blanc Weber]

From: Mike McNally

I don't think an economic argument will really fly well, though I'd
love to be shown to be way wrong.  Seems to me that a mass-produced
chip whose production is subsidized by the government would probably
be pretty cheap.
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I think an economic argument may be more of what "they" would be 
attentive to, since it is the issue with which they concern themselves 
the most  -  the economic situation of the country, and their need to 
be in control of its facade.

A problem:  subsidization would mean higher taxes.

Blanc