> >> >> "Free trade coincides with each and every instance
> >> >> of free speech."
>
> >> > I just talked to someone on a street corner.
>
> > . . .
>
> >> > If the gummint was to
> >> > tax that speech at the 8% tax rate on the sale of a motorcycle, how
> >> > much money could the gummint get?
>
> >> If the gummint was to tax Roger
>
> > Don't dodge the question:
>
> > If the gummint was to tax that speech at a 8% tax rate
> > much money could the gummint get?
>
> Nothing. =EF=BF=BD8% of nothing is still nothing.
>
> >> Anyway, this is irrelevant for more than one
> >> reason: private speech is always free,
>
> > OK I put a sign for everyone to see out in my front yard.
>
> Where'd you buy that sign, and the crayon you used
> to write on it? =EF=BF=BD
I didn't. The smelly hippies in my commune made it out of colored
clay.
> And you also stole that front yard from
> some of my ancestors.
Nope. It's out here in Death Valley. When the tribal types
researched it for a casino, they couldn't find any artifacts on the
land.
But that does bring up another point:
For the public to see a sign on a piece of property, there must be a
public road nearby.
This isn't a coincidence. In fact, all communication with the public
is always 100% dependent on public funding.
Bret Cahill
"Mr. Coase seems to regard this as an historical accident or matter
of
tradition. He does not see or mention the fact that that the demand
for freedom of ideas _had to_ precede freedom of trade, that without
the heroic struggle of those who fought for a free market in ideas,
no
such thing as a free market in goods would or could have been
discovered."
-- Rand
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