[MD] NHS? No thanks

[Arlo Bensinger]

And my last go-round on this one...

[Platt]
For the exception, the policy and military, yes. For the rest, no.

[Arlo]
Proving that taxation to support social infrastructure enables freedom.

[Platt]
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."

[Arlo]
Yes, I'd say public lands, public roads and waterways, public 
libraries... all these things increase my liberty, indeed, increase 
everyone's liberty. The next time I am basking in the sun on my 
little rowboat, with a line in the water, sipping a cold beer in one 
of Pennsylvania's wonderful state parks, having driven there on free 
roads, maybe reading "I am a Strange Loop" checked out from my local 
public library, I'll just smile when I think of how you find all that 
"destructive to liberty". And maybe on the way back I'll stop in at a 
public museum, since they too destroy my liberty, and take in the 
art. All the while breathing the clean air and dipping my feet in the 
clear waters, kept this way by government environmental and land 
management programs. A threat to liberty? Hehehehe...

[Platt]
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?

[Arlo]
I don't know. Start an organization to demand tenure for radio talk 
show hosts. What do I care?

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

[Arlo]
Social infrastructure provides liberty.

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

[Arlo]
I have nothing to apologize for, nor control over those who may. Write to them.

Over and out.