[MD] NHS? No thanks

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> Seems to me taxation is not a threat to liberty nor destructive. 
> Seeing that it pays for our police and military, I'd say taxes are 
> quite freedom enabling.

For the exception, the policy and military, yes. For the rest, no.

> [Platt]
> I try to simplify complicated issues so you will understand. But, alas . . .
> 
> [Arlo]
> Right. You distort, like in the following.
> 
> [Arlo previously]
> Public libraries, free roads and waterways, public lands, 
> museums,  municipal services, social safety net, consumer 
> protection,  environmental protection, land management, yes, I'd say 
> government  brings us wonderful things.
> 
> [Platt]
> I know. You love government and all it's interference in our lives. 
> To hell with liberty.
> 
> [Arlo]
> No, I love "public libraries, free roads and waterways, public lands, 
> museums,  municipal services, social safety net, consumer 
> protection,  environmental protection, land management" and all the 
> other wonderful infrastructural benefits of living in a civilized 
> society. These things I mention increase my liberty, not interfere with it.

All these things free, like "free roads and waterways?" I guess to you the power
to tax is the power to provide freebies. Some "critical thinking" I must say. 
Some "liberty."

> [Platt]
> Nice try at avoiding the question, "Why not fire the professors for 
> speaking out for injustice?" And I have to laugh" -- you want liberty 
> for the academy but not for the rest of us.
> 
> [Arlo]
> I answered your question in my first sentence. Tenure, for good or 
> bad, protects faculty.

Why not tenure for everybody? Is a faculty somehow elite, to be treated differently
than the rest of us peons? Why not tenure for Imus?

> I want liberty for us all. Where did I say 
> that otherwise?

You want to tax for all sorts of things besides those who defend liberty. That's
when you said otherwise.

> I said, twice, I found the debacle surrounding the 
> Duke case deplorable. But, as I've said twice, lynch mobs with 
> pitchforks are a common part of our American culture. What more can be said?

And we should let it go at that? Not even an apology from your precious, protected
faculty?



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