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Re: Anguilla
> From: Vincent Cate <[email protected]>
> To: Charles Platt <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Anguilla
> Date: Sunday, 9 March 1997 9:22
>
> Charles:
> > his country shows few signs of libertarian ideology; e.g. they have a
> > state-owned radio station, they haven't quite embraced the idea of
> > competitive bids for government projects, and they still have a
> > monopolistic phone service that has disabled all the pound and star
keys
> > on island phones so that people can't save money using American
call-back
> > services.
>
> I am going to have to check tomorrow and see about thse star and
> pound keys. It would amuse me if we had seen the birth of an urban
> legend.
Hopefully stillborn.
I use these services regularly and have never bothered to use the # or *
keys. BTW a 'pound' symbol is NOT the same as a 'hatch', fer chrissake!
While I'm on the soapbox, a 'hash' is NOT a 'hatch' as well ... but that's
a losing battle.
>
> Anguilla vs USA
> 1) Income taxes Libertarian Socialist
> 2) Sales Taxes Libertarian Socialist
> 3) State owned radio Yes Yes
> 4) Competative bids Sometimes Sometimes
> 5) Pound keys that work ? Will check Yes
> 6) Reporting of finances Libertarian Totalitarian
> 7) Free Speech Yes, sort of Yes, sort of
>
> -- Vince
>
Regards,
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