Re: wealth and property rights

[Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net>]

Jean-Francois Avon wrote:
> On 21 Nov 96 at 18:35, Dave Hayes wrote:
> > However, I would question the implication that "socialists" are
> > responsible for the higher tax rates you currently experience.
> > For example, I could make a strong case that you really have some
> > clever "capitalists" who have learned how to express their
> > "capitalism" quite effectively across the space of all people in a
> > "country".

[snippo]

Willis Carto, a man who is more discredited in the U.S. than most (he
is alleged to be extremely anti-Semitic, although Mark Lane says not so),
says that "Capitalism is generally just as much an enemy of Free Enterprise
as is Socialism" (quote approximate), since both promote monopolies.

I think you all know of the potential dangers of Populism (Carto's
preference), so perhaps the "Devil is in the details", as they say...