re market or gov failures in c tcl xi cs cmu edu tm msu edu tom writes fred saying that gov coercive poser is necessary for any space program i reply btw fred you ve really crossed the border since you admit that the ideas you support can only be carried out with coercive power now that s really f in intolerant so get off yer high horse about tolerance fred replies no tommy i admit that there are such things as market failures which necessitate intervention by other than capitalist forces to correct i guess your understanding of this market failure should be classified under phil s economics on the level of th century medicine since you apparently completely ignored that this market failure can as easily or even much more easily be attributed to government intervention failure so in addition to a strong moral argument against what you propose there is also a strong utilitarian argument namely that gov s destruction of wealth through confiscastory taxation and redistribution on a major scale has made significant private capital investments harder to make i note that you make no such case as you claim can be even more easily made yes the argument can and has been made that current government policy creates even larger market barriers than there were in the first place but there is no such term as government failure since the government can change policies whenever it pleases the market doesn t do that and is governed by relatively well understood forces this libertopican bilge about moral arguments about taxation etc is at bottom so much simplistic economic thinking it can only be justified by cliche derision of anyone who knows more about economics than the libertopian which is what invariably happens tripe a la tommy the new libertopian dish get a clue little boy and go salve your wounded pride in my not considering you infallible in some other fashion i m not interested in your ego games puh leese fred this besides being simply an attempt to be insulting really belongs on private mail if ego games are so unimportatnt to you why the insults and this strange negative attatchment for me wherever do you get this inflated idea of your own importance insisting on perfect safety is for people who don t have the balls to live in the real world mary shafer nasa ames dryden fred mccall dseg ti com i don t speak for others and they don t speak for me
