Want to re-think your above statement?


Dave wrote:
Nope. First, the money spent by those purchasing the service from the
guvmint doesn't just go poof and evaporate. (Though what does happen to it
is another story.)

Ah so, taking your money is OK in this instance, but not in others
(f'r'instance Social Security taxes)? Your sense of fiscally
responsibile gov't is strangely flexible.


... Second, nobody's "guaranteed a profit." Like anything
bought and sold, the data may result in a profit, and it may result in a
loss to the purchaser.

Really? How does one not show a profit when one receives a valuable
service for free, because other people have already paid for it, and
then sells that service to the other people who have already paid for it
but are now restrained by law from receiving it, except from you, at a
price you determine?

... "Guaranteed a profit" is simply empty-headed populist
rhetoric.

Well yeah, of course... except that it accurately describes the
situation. But hey, if a fact is embarassing to certain political
interests, then that fact becomes "liberal spin" and "empty-headed
populist rhetoric" doesn't it?

But y'know what? Water runs downhill.

DSK