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On 5 May 2001, at 18:02, Faustine wrote:
> Contrary to what you may believe, being critical of some libertarians doesn't
> equal rejecting libertarianism.
Arrogantly proclaiming your superior enlightenment, and the benighted ignorance of the
rest of us, on topics of which you very plainly
Steve Schear wrote:
> Rome had a very sound economic policy
> based on slavery and military might.
Hm, I see what you mean...and how interesting that what really got them in the
end was inflation and devaluation of their currency. Here's a great article
from the Cato Institute about this very
Steve Schear wrote:
> Rome had a very sound economic policy
> based on slavery and military might.
> It lasted about 1000 years. Few would
> argue this was not a success story.
No one could argue that Rome was a success, but I'm not sure that Steve's
two factors were the reason. Virtually ever
