[MD] On Indian Values (Part I?)

[Platt Holden]

> [Arlo]
> How is offering interest rate tax DEDUCTIONS to ANYONE, rich OR poor, an
> example of "taking from the rich and giving to the poor"?

Who pray tell is qualified to take out a loan? Kids? Recipients of 
meals on wheels? I'll tell you who is qualified -- those with "ability" 
to repay the loan. Remember? "From each according to his abilities . . 
.?" And what banker in his right mind is going to reduce the 5.5% going 
rate on loans to 4% if the borrower agrees to make sure Granny takes 
her pills? How in heaven's name would anyone make sure such a promise 
was kept? Who would want to? 

> What everyone sees is your nonsensical party dribble, Platt, that now is
> stuggling to defend a proposition that is so absolutely inane to be
> quite sad. But I'm liking it. You just keep proving yourself to be the
> fool. Go on.

And you accuse me of ad hominem attacks? What a joke. I'm a fool? No, 
you're a fool -- a blind fool at that. So there.

The rest of your post, full of all CAPS SHOUTING, simply shows your 
desperation. And in repeating your frantic question . . . 

>  why is it "Marxist" to offer REDUCED interest
> rates to ANYONE in exchange for public service?

. . . you simply can't see that no one would voluntarily "offer" such 
reduced interest rates and that to put your social engineering proposal 
into effect would require force. Like any good Marxist, you find 
nothing wrong with using a policeman's or soldier's gun to achieve 
"social equality."

Looking forward to your next proposal to enact your Marxist Utopia. :-)

Platt