From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 95 18:30:48 PDT
To: liberty@gate.net (Jim Ray)
Subject: (NOISE) Re: e$: More fun with cash: Senate Bill 307
Message-ID: <199509050127.SAA14037@ix9.ix.netcom.com>
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>I had heard that it was the Columbians, branching out from the cocaine
>business with those fancy new copy machines, which are supposed to be
>able to duplicate the blue & red threads in US currency paper.

But if the government was _serious_ about supply-side drug-trade reduction,
wouldn't they _encourage_ this sort of thing?  After all, that way
the Colombians can make as much money as they do today without the
bother of hauling all that white powder into the US?  :-)

(Sure, it's a cypherpunk topic, after all real crypto is mainly about
economics and threat analysis :-)

>See, when the GOVERNMENT spends money, it creates jobs; whereas 
>when the money is left in the hands of TAXPAYERS, God only knows 
>what they do with it.  Bake it into pies, probably.  Anything to 
>avoid creating jobs.  -- Dave Barry
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