[Radar]

I love the way Radar is so sure he's right he's willing to go against the will of the people (and cause many deaths) to impose his ridiculous 'state' on them. Maybe your government should stop spending money to fingerprint Swiss tourists and spend a little more keeping an eye on their home-grown nutters.

I love the way you attempt to justify robbery because it is teh "will of the people". If one person robs you with a gun, it's robbery. If a gang of 10 people rob you it's still robbery. And if 250 million people rob you at the point of a gun and call themselves "government" it is STILL robbery and claiming that it's "the will of the people" doesn't change shit.

I'm not debating what Friedman thinks, I'm merely stating monearism is dead, a failure and disowned by Friedman himself.

That's an absolute lie. Milton Friedman has never "disowned" the idea of going back to a gold or other fiat-based standard of money; not ever and you're a liar if you claim he did. The gold standard never failed. Not once. If you claim it did, you are once again a liar.

Your quality and range of public services is directly related to your rate of taxes.

What are you smoking and where can I get it?

The while the range of services (not that they provide actual service) is related to how much stolen money the government can get its hands on, the quality is not. Private schools cost on average half of what the government spends per student per year and they have a far superior education. In fact you can not name a single government run social service that can't be run cheaper, provide superior service, and use less overhead than a similar privately funded non-profit charity.

I know, I know, but public school does turn out kids who can read and want to learn. Just not as many as I would like and far more than would be cranked out by the non-tax version Radar is espousing.

The number is students is debatable. But the quality of education is not. Under the theft-funded system you promote, there are childen moved up and who graduate who are illiterate or very near to it. They can't name the vice-president, state capitals, etc. In a word they, like those who support the current public school system, are morons. Under the privately funded, more efficient, and superior school system I propose, the students who graduate will be able to compete globally with those anywhere else on earth. In my system education isn't taken down to the lowest common denominator.

So the question is do we want an entire nation of people educated at the level of a burger flipper as your system produces, or do we want the best engineers, doctors, and scientists on earth as my system would produce?

If only.

You got that right.