Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site psivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: What is a libertarian go[u]verment? Message-ID: <303@psivax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 13:40:37 EST Article-I.D.: psivax.303 Posted: Mon Feb 4 13:40:37 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 09:09:23 EST References: <421@klipper.UUCP> <627@unmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley friesen) Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA Lines: 31 Summary: In article <627@unmvax.UUCP> cliff@unmvax.UUCP writes: > With a sufficiently small >kernel as the actual government itself, it would be possible to finance the >entire government proper through private donations and user fees (i.e. a >convicted criminal can either cough up sufficient money to pay for his trial >incarceration, etc. or face deportation) > What is this! You would inflict our crazies, murderers, and just plain anti-socials on the rest of the world if they do not have enough money to pay for the trial??? This is hardly fair to our neighbors! >Again, this is another point of contention. There are all sorts of schemes >related to land use. I do not favor the homesteading of land already claimed >by the private sector. I believe that our National Parks should be in private >hands, but that would be hard to do if the homesteading laws allowed someone >to claim the grand canyon. > Another problem with this is: private individuals will only maintainf their private parks as long as it is convient to do so, thus in a few generations all our wilderness land will be done forever. There is already to little of it! The purpose of *goverment* parks is to remove the land from economic considerations and preserve it *unconditionally*. -- Sarima (Stanley Friesen) {trwrb|allegra|cbosgd|hplabs|ihnp4|aero!uscvax!akgua}!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen or quad1!psivax!friesen