From: liberty@gate.net (Jim Ray)
Date: Sat, 4 May 1996 07:17:18 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: CryptoAnarchy: What's wrong with this picture?
Message-ID: <199605031414.KAA32390@osceola.gate.net>
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[I must *try* to quit rising to all this bloody bait, but:]

Michael Loomis wrote:

>[..."unfairness is kept within reasonable bounds"..."reasonable
> sized government"...]

I'm sure that we all agree on the meaning of the term, "reasonable."

>Consumption taxation would, of course,
>include a tax on the amount of information coming into your computer.  I
>don't think that the government will have any problem determining the
>quantity of the information & since it will be encrypted anyway, I don't
>see the privacy worries.

This would give a whole new meaning to the term "mailbomb," no?
JMR

Regards, Jim Ray <liberty@gate.net> 

"The FAA, FBI, Customs, CIA, Justice, DEA and the IRS were all involved
 in Mena. They won't say how they were involved, but they will tell you
 there is nothing there." -- Bill Plante, CBS News Correspondent, &
 Michael Singer, Producer, CBS News, New York. in Tuesday, May 3,
 1994's  Wall Street Journal letters to the editor section.
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