From: Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 15:44:43 +0800
To: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
Subject: Re: A Libertine Question (fwd)
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C'punks,

On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Jim Choate wrote:

> And any insurance company with a whit of sense would charge you rates so
> high that your much touted small vendors and many of the medium sized
> vendors currently in business would not exist. You think governments are
> bad? Wait till you see a bunch of bean counters racing a profit margin. In
> such a situation we wouldn't even have the opportunity for input into the
> system via constitutions, charters, and votes. Just imagine how much support
> a Japanese insurance company would provide its clients in regards to the
> current epidemic in Japan, absolutely none because it is better the little
> vendor go out of business than the insurance company.

Apparently Jim does not understand that the "race for profit 
margin" is what LOWERS the prices of goods and services.  You 
might check out HUMAN ACTION by von Mises.  Anyway, as I said in 
my previous post.

> > It would be nice if businesses were offered that choice

I'm confident that the market solution would be far cheaper and
less violent they injecting the coercive state apparatus into a
volutary transactions between PEOPLE.

> I own 2 businesses...none are equivalent to my person. 

So?  They are owned and operated by people.

> Businesses are a system of rules and procedures...

Made and enforced by PEOPLE.  Jim is begging the question.

> Would you seriously give my dog a vote?

Gee, I don't know your dog.  His understanding of economics
couldn't be much more rudimentary.  (Okay, it was a cheap
shot, but it was a silly question.)


 S a n d y

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