--- In LibertarianEnterprise@yahoogroups.com, "goat!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oh well, then he offers the solution as insurance agencies. Should > have seen it coming. First he sets up a strawman argument, then > substitutes one tyrant for another. Along with the bankers, > insurance interest, have to be one of the biggest and oldest influences > on manipulative law and racketeering there is. Hell, the mob has had it > down pat for 1000s of years. > > "Hey buddy." > "Yeah." > "You don't want your store to burn down do you?" > "Well, no. Why?" > "Well, because if you don't get our protecting insurance it > might do just that." > "Ah, ok. How much?" > Oh, it is only $200 a week." > "I only make $400 week." > "Yeah, well Bob over there makes > $1000 a week, and he was making $2000 > a week till you came along, and now he > is having trouble paying us our $500 > a week since you came along, so he gives us an extra $200 > a week to protect his business. Now we have to make > that up either through you or him." > "Ok, I'll pay you the $200." > "Just hope Bob can't come up with another $100, > though you could beat him to the punch and pay us $100 > to protect your business?" > > Yeah, just what we need, another mob in even more control > then they are now. >
Yeah, there oughta be a Law against Insurance Rackets.
