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OT- Who's job is it?

What happened to the idea that people who use a service should pay for it?

Think about what you're saying: your plan amounts to socialism for the rich. Everyone pays equally, but the rich are the ones who benefit. It's Karl Marx on drugs.

*Society* incurred the costs? As I said, Karl Marx on drugs.

So, we're going to speculate on real estate and trade pieces of paper with each other. Now *there's* a prescription for a healthy economy, and for a healthy society.

What ever happened to actually *doing* something for a living? Or is that just, as Leona Helmsley put it, "for the little people"?

Ed Huntress

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Ed Huntress
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Where did you get your figure of Du Pont selling a million pounds of powder to the government in 1812? I picked up a copy of William Dutton's book entitled " Du Pont " and subtitled "One Hundred and Forty Years ". It says the government ordered 200,000 pounds in 1812.

Dan

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Dan Caster

Jeez, Dan, I don't remember. That thread was a while ago.

Ed Huntress

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Ed Huntress

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It says production exceeded 500,000 pounds. It doesn't say by how much.

Kevin Gallimore

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axolotl

Thanks. That figure was for the whole war of 1812. Ed was saying that Du Pont sold a million lbs to the government in 1812. The book has the sales by the years along with other data on profits etc. It says that in 1814 Du Pont had $125,000 in inventory, debts of $100,000, Cash of $10,193.08 and was owed more than $7,600 by the government 15 months after peace was declared.

However in 1815 sales were 75,000 lbs more than the biggest of the war years.

Dan

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Dan Caster

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