Subject: Re: [LPNY DISCUSS] What's the LP position on this? Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:35:30 -0500 To: From: Bob Armstrong On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:03:36 -0500, Blay Tarnoff wrote: >=A0Bob Armstrong wrote: >=A0> >=A0>=A0Perhaps I should not have used "local" . > >=A0You should not have used "converge". > >=A0A naturally stable monopoly is a very rare thing. =A0The only= reason the >=A0businesses you mention are monopolies is because of government >=A0protectionism. Ridiculous . How can you conceivably imagine a municipal water= , and for that matter sewer , systems that are not geographic monopolies . They have been since before Rome . Your alternative to a particular monopoly is to move . These sorts of debates over fantasies do nothing but provide comic stereotypes of libertarians . >=A0The reason government can get away with >=A0protecting/regulating them is because so many people's minds= are >=A0"boggled" by the notion that they don't have to be monopolies. > >=A0Blay --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Computing Environment : =A0http://CoSy.com/CoSy/ Libertarian Presidential Candidates =A0:= http://CoSy.com/Liberty.htm Restore our Right to Relax : =A0http://ny.lp.org/cgi-bin/petition.cgi?Against_the_Smoking_Ban =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02004/03/31 4:23:08 PM