Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gloria.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!rochester!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Liberterianism Message-ID: <541@gloria.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Sep-84 10:16:00 EDT Article-I.D.: gloria.541 Posted: Fri Sep 14 10:16:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 06:24:45 EDT References: <1743@inmet.UUCP> Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 22 ["Officials ought not to be corrupted." --The Slavertarian Manifesto] >> Several things in a libertarian society would be likely to be >> different. For example, it's hard to imagine how >> limited-liability corporations would exist in a society where >> each INDIVIDUAL is responsible for that individual's actions. No corporations limited! You'll have to abolish the middle class to put this one over. From 1789 to the present, federalism grew by demand of the merchants. No interstate tariffs! Uniform currency! Corporations limited! Transcontinental railways! Whether it increased personal liberty or diminished it, business demanded it and got it. By the way, I foresee a conflict between the libertarians and the gold-backers. If all debts must be paid - in gold - what happens if the price of gold drops? (REAL libertarians don't use money - they barter!) -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel