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Attila Iskander

"Free Lunch" wrote in message
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On Wed, 29 May 2013 22:57:21 -0400, wrote in alt.atheism:

On Wed, 29 May 2013 21:10:31 -0500, "Attila Iskander"
wrote:

"Free Lunch" wrote in message
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On Wed, 29 May 2013 20:49:33 -0400, wrote in alt.atheism:

On Wed, 29 May 2013 00:27:19 +0100, "Alex W."
wrote:

On Tue, 28 May 2013 17:19:09 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 28 May 2013 15:58:02 -0500, Free Lunch

wrote:

Taxes may be used to make investments. Capital investments exist in
both the public and private sector.

Taxes *IMPEDE* investments. For *every* dime the government
spends on such things the private sector cannot spend two.
You really are a dumb****.

Best example to the contrary: the interstate system, built
by the state using tax funds.

Anyone with any knowledge of history knows the Eisenhower Interstate
Highway system was a defense project.

Nonsense. It was a civil works project to improve travel
infrastructure.

It was both
They are NOT mutually exclusive

It *WAS* a defense project. It's economic benefits were a secondary
consideration.

It was called that to keep the idiots like Taft from messing it up.

Just look at another military funded project that is in common PUBLIC use
today
The Internet

Excellent simile.

Just look al all the spin-off that came from Kennedy's "going to the
moon"

Less direct but also to the point.

What people like you don't grasp is that the indirect benefits of such
projects are otten greater than the original purpose.

Usually by accident. Central planning just simply doesn't work.

The *only* thing government can
do reasonably well are things the private sector simply can't. Most
it fails at miserably or costs *way* too much. It's a natural law.

Why do reactionaries keep telling each other that. It is not true.

So when are you going to stop being a stupid reactionary ?
We're all waiting for it to happen.

I'm certainly under no delusion lefties will ever learn anything.

You have made it clear that you will never learn enough to be in the
position to critique what others know.

Did you look in a mirror again ?