"DSK" wrote in message
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It's very interesting that you and Maxprop are lining up in favor of the
paternalist & socialistic European economic structures.




Maxprop wrote:
I've just gotta hear this explanation.


The VAT.

You've never seen me mention the VAT in this or any other NG.

I would like to hear *your* explanation. Sometimmes European
social/economic/gov't models are leftist twaddle beloved of muddle-headed
elitists, other times it is just the way you want to go.

I'd be more inclined to admit to this if you could find even one example of
same.


While I try to avoid a petty preoccupation with consistency

That one will win you the 'ASA Baldface Lie of the Year Award.' You jump on
every instance in which you perceive inconsistency. Of course you are
almost always wrong, conjuring up things I or others have said when we have
indeed not said same. Like my purported alignment with the VAT, or
condemnation of it, whichever position you claim I've taken.

(which Emerson assures us is the hobgoblin of little minds),

Emerson has you pegged.

it is generally not smart, nor productive, to contradict oneself every
time one speaks (or posts). Of course, self-contradictory illogic has been
the neo-cons stock in trade... and look where it's gotten us!

I've been reading your debate on this issue with Dave, mostly without
comment. And I've concluded that you are at least as inconsistent w/r/t
your positions as anyone here. Of course a lot of what one deems
inconsistent is probably due to the reader's misinterpretation of what the
poster intended to say. At least I'm big enough to admit that, while you
are so absolutely, completely, without reservation positive that your
interpretation is right and that I and others are inconsistent.

One who fails to see his own mistakes is doomed to repeat them. I wonder if
Emerson had anything to say about that.

Max