Letters to the Editor
L.W.M.
Published Letters: 6163 Editor's Choice: 5
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I don't know about Horace, Bebop...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]The only thing I know is I don't know anything at all. I think Socrates may have stole that from Pythagoras, (or maybe it was Hypotenuse), I don't know. Philosophers really piss me off. I don't understand a word they are saying. I'm not sure they do either but I love to listen to them talk. :-)
Never trust Shooter. He cheats on tests.
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Tribes
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tim W. Brown -- Tell it to the Hatfields and McCoys. BTW, did you know there was a genetic disorder that may have caused that? Known for some time but only recently publiciized.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17967965/
I'll not get into a debate with you but you are no more evolved than Glenn Reynolds or the people, cultures and practices you think you are so far superior to. You ain't.
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Political science and economics
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Frankly, My Dear--
This shocks people.
"Private ownership is the cure for all problems, despite the historical record of privately owned states such as Nazi Germany, Czarist and Stalinist Russia, and Maoist China."
They just don't believe it.
http://world.std.com/~mhuben/onelesson.html
Fairhope, Alabama, while not socialist, Marxist or communist, works rather well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairhope,_Alabama
So does The Ardens, Delaware. It's growing. LVT.
Land Value Taxation.
Churchill was a Georgist.
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Georgists
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Libertarians" like to posthumously claim all kinds of people as "L"ibertarians. (ALP) Tom Paine would never have joined the American Libertarian Party today. Neither would Tom Jefferson or Ben Franklin. They would be left-libertarian Georgists, like Churchill. Paine would definitely be a mutualist, free market anti-capitalist like Benjamin Tucker:
http://mutualist.blogspot.com/
Personal property is the effect of Society; and it is as impossible for an individual to acquire personal property without the aid of society, as it is for him to make land originally. Separate an individual from society, and give him an island or a continent to possess, and he cannot acquire personal property. He cannot be rich. So inseparably are the means connected with the end, in all cases, that where the former do not exist, the latter cannot be obtained. All accumulation therefore of personal property, beyond what a man's own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes, on every principle of justice, of gratitude, and of civilization, a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came. This is putting the matter on a general principle, and perhaps it is best to do so; for if we examine the case minutely, it will be found, that the accumulation of personal property is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labour that produced it; the consequence of which is, that the working hand perishes in old age, and the employer abounds in affluence. It is perhaps impossible to proportion exactly the price of labour to the profits it produces; and it will also be said, as an apology for injustice, that were a workman to receive an increase of wages daily, he would not save it against old age nor be much the better for it in the interim. Make then Society the treasurer to guard it for him in a common fund, for it is no reason that because he might not make a good use of it for himself that another shall take it.
Thomas Paine, "Agrarian Justice" 1797
... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions or property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right.
Thomas Jefferson (in a letter to James Madison), 1785
While it is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from Nature at all ... it is considered by those who have seriously considered the subject, that no one has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land ... Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society.
Thomas Jefferson
Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to its last Farthing, its contributors therefore to the public Exigencies are not to be considered a Benefit on the Public, entitling the Contributors to the Distinctions of Honor and Power, but as the Return of an Obligation previously received, or as payment for a just Debt.
All property, indeed, except the savage's temporary cabin, his bow, his matchcoat and other little Acquisitions absolutely necessary for his Subsistence, seems to me to be the creature of public Convention. Hence, the public has the rights of regulating Descents, and all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the quantity and uses of it. All the property that is necessary to a man is his natural Right, which none may justly deprive him of, but all Property superfluous to such Purposes is the property of the Public who, by their Laws have created it and who may, by other Laws dispose of it.
Benjamin Franklin
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Typo?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Moreover, I really relied on the analysis of Edward Fox
You mean Fox? I have only skimmed your post but I have known about him for some time because of my interest in the unsolved mystery aspect of the case, and your positive assessment of his research only gives me more confidence in it. I was always quite impressed before and thought he was the go to guy.
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Damn! Now I'm doing it.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lake! Ed Lake.