Microsoft Hatred FAQ

[axel at white-eagle.invalid.uk]

In comp.lang.perl.misc David Schwartz <davids at webmaster.com> wrote:
 
> <axel at white-eagle.invalid.uk> wrote in message 
> news:3EI6f.43974$MF6.5922 at fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
 
>> In comp.lang.perl.misc David Schwartz <davids at webmaster.com> wrote:
>>> "Mike Meyer" <mwm at mired.org> wrote in message
 
>>>> Sorry, but nobody but the government actually owns property. In most
>>>> places, you can't make non-trivial changes to "your" property without
>>>> permission from the government. They even charge you rent on "your"
>>>> property, only they call it "property tax".
 
>>>    I see you are a totalitarianist or perhaps a communist. If you want to
>>> live in America and discuss things that are relevent to America, let me
>>> know.
 
>> Why would you say that - Mike Meyer made a point to which you have
>> obviously no answer. Or do you deny that his comments on this matter
>> of property are true?
 
>    His comments are not applicable to America. They are applicable to a 
> country where the government owns the economy.
 
>    No reply is needed to his comments except to point out that they only 
> apply to a communist or totalitarian state. We don't have one here, so his 
> argument doesn't apply.

The last time I looked, property taxes were enforced in many states of
the USA. Do you deny this?
 
>    I am not saying "because you are a communist, your argument is wrong". I 
> am saying, "because your argument is based upon communist or totalitarian 
> premises about the relationship between the government and the economy, it 
> does not apply to the United States, and we were talking about the United 
> States."
 
Then you are sadly deluded if you think that the US government does not
make decisions on the economy.

Axel