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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: minimalism in government
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Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 20:33:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 10 20:33:00 1985
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>/* colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) / 11:19 am  Jul  8, 1985 */

>Socialists generally feel that the production of material wealth is
>efficient enough now.  They are more interested in distributing
>material wealth and producing non-material wealth (e.g., nursing
>care, public transport).

If this is the case, then they make a fundamental error in assuming
that the switch from a decentralized market controlled economy to
one in which wealth is "distributed" will not affect the efficiency
of that economy in a drastically adverse way.

>Col. G. L. Sicherman

						Mike Sykora