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From: lkk@teddy.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Newsflash! [JoSH on Socialis
Message-ID: <1351@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 17:14:47 EDT
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In article <28200103@inmet.UUCP> nrh@inmet.UUCP writes:
>
>Whoa!  Let's have some historical examples please, of a government that
>CREATED wealth. Granted that governments seldom actually started out
>to destroy wealth, I've never heard of one that actually engaged in
>NET creation of wealth (such a government would not need to tax people,
>as it would turn a profit).  Localized increase of wealth is no trick at
>all for a government, but to call this "creation of wealth"
>amounts to assuming that the money in the tax-collector's coffers
>just "appears from nowhere".



The space program.  The nuclear energy program.  Computers.

Hoover dam.

The interstate highway system.

Harvard.  M.I.T. UCB.


Need I go on?


Of course the money doesn't appear from nowhere, it comes from
govt. printing presses!!  (This isn't as facetious as it sounds.  
The entire economy, without which the concept of wealth would be meaningless.
Is based on a governmentally created and controlled system of commerce.)


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Larry Kolodney
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