<OT> Re: list moderator losing perspective?

[Leon Goldstein]

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>> Oops, sorry.   Since PBS is running another interminable nagathon, I 
>> stocked up on some good reading from Daedalus.  One of the books is 
>> "The Courtier  and The Heretic " by Matthew Stuart.   "The Courtier 
>> (Leibniz) and The Heretic ()" is a great read, by a philosophy 
>> professor who thinks philosophy, like Linux, should be an "open 
>> source" rather than a proprietary intellectual discipline whose 
>> meaning is kept concealed from the public.   
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> I'm of the "National Sales Tax camp ", and far less Government. It seems
> that Government it is our last export, besides bad Hollywood garbage and
> porn, to the rest of the world. I'm just gonna be forced into running
> for President, that's all there is to it.
> There's plenty of this pig to carve up for everyone, so just tell me
> what post in my Cabinet you wish to serve in ...you got it. <wink wink 
> nudge nudge>
> Leon, would you like to be in charge of Telecommunications? <huge 
> grins> Hail Linux, Ric
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Golly, I was just trying to elevate the cultural level of this thread, 
and you have to drag in government.

I think we need to get rid of consumer taxes and bring back the stamp 
act.  If people have to pay for a tax stamp on every piece of government 
paper work they fill out, and thereby pay directly for the government 
"services" they want, we can cut eliminate much of the need for consumer 
taxes.  This is analogous to minimizing system overhead using Linux , 
where resources are allocated to processes only when needed, rather than 
the "other" OS that just consumes resources whether they are used or not.

(Whew, I  was really sweating how to make the obligatory Linux connection.)

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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