1993-10-20 - Re: why anon bank acct?

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From: “Robert J. Woodhead” <trebor@foretune.co.jp>
To: rjc@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray)
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From: "Robert J. Woodhead" <trebor@foretune.co.jp>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 93 02:42:30 PDT
To: rjc@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray)
Subject: Re: why anon bank acct?
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Ray writes:

>   Simple. Privatize those parts of government so they can chose
>the services they want to buy.

An admirable solution, but it does not take into account the vested
interests involved.  The only way to deal with them is to design a
new system that is sufficiently more efficient (and/or wealth
generating) that they are better off supporting it than opposing
it.  The U.S. Government has been under construction for over 200
years; you are not going to break it apart so easily.

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