[extropy-chat] public service announcements

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Hal Finney <hal at finney.org> wrote:

> Those are fine, but here in California we have the government
> spending money to get people to gamble!   
> I feel sick when I see advertising like this.  I can't complain that
> it's my hard-earned tax dollars at work; I don't play the lottery,
> so I'm not funding the ads.  But still, it is a terrible mistake for
> society to tell poor people that they should throw away their money
> on
> futile dreams of riches instead of saving it and gaining a realistic
> chance of a modest but genuine increase in prosperity.

Dummy taxes: not just for Ken Lay and Roger Ebberts.... maybe instead
they can get jobs in crash test labs.

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com


		
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