Caselist Update

Tue Oct 24 17:44:02 CDT 2000

The following files have been updated since last week:

Emory LR -- debt
Emory TM
Emory WW
Fort Hays
Georgetown
Harvard CW
Liberty El-Shifa
Michigan MS
MSU SS
Northwestern FS
Wake ES

Neg

Catholic
Dartmouth
Emory
Forth Hays
UMKC

More updates have been promised.  I will post them tomorrow evening.

http://www.secondarysources.com/caselist

Stefan

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From: Frank Paul Irizarry <FIrizarry at PACE.EDU>
Subject: Re: VOTE FOR BUSH!!!
Comments: To: Daniel Hugh Nexon <dhn2 at columbia.edu>

>On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Frank Paul Irizarry wrote:
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>> Actually, they're my wife Cindy's student loans.  She's the bleeding heart liberal of the family who thought it was the government's "responsibility" to help pay for her Graduate education.  I on the other hand took out no government student loans.  I sold my car and walked two miles a day back and forth to the Northern Illinois University campus in sub-zero temperatures, i sold away an extensive CD collection, had no cable TV, ate pasta 45 times a month and i worked 16 hours a day over the summer hauling garbage just so i wouldn't have to take a single dime in government money for my education.  I did it.  Others should to.
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>Even if you did not receive student loans, you went to a school which
>received substantial public funds -- thus subsidizing your education --
>took government roads, etc. Like it or not, you aren't "pure." Now, the
>real question is under what conditions it is appropriate to use coercive
>resource expropriation to provide for general welfare... and there are
>good arguments that some of things you've benefited from on fall within
>that domain. That's where the debate needs to be, not on the level of
>bogus, chest-thumping, rabid individualism.

THIS IS JUST A TERRIBLE ARGUMENT!  Just because I can't fully escape all of the trappings of the system doesn't mean I need to be complicit with the system in its entirety.  I can't escape all schools that receive public funds, I can't avoid all roads maintained with public funds etc... but I can limit the amount that I use the system.  Instead of making this awful argument about how I'm not "pure" why don't you accept my narrative and respect it?
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>> You assume that the "libertarian" notion (and i don't necessarily
>> categorize myself as such although I do have some strong libretarian
>> tendencies) means no one is concerned with others.
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>I think what's more at issue is not some amorphous libertarianism, but the
>kind of sentiments you've expressed (which struck me as pretty hard-core
>self-interested egoism as well).

And that's a bad thing because....

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>> That is just patently wrong.  Even though the government strips me of
>39% of the money I earn, I still make many charitable
>contributions both of my time and my money.  Last Christmas, my family
>decided we would not exchange Christmas gifts and we would instead donate
>all of that money (and then some) that we would have spent on gifts to the
>Volusia County Children's charities.  Would you believe that Cindy and i
>had one of the highest contributions they had received that didn't come
>from an organization
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>So what you're really saying is that you don't feel like your political
>participation established sufficient consent for your taxation in the
>context of policies aimed at establishing equality of opportunity?

I'm saying that I exercised my choice to donate to charity and that I may not be able to make that choice this year and the state shouldn't force me to.

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>> * - the State does not have to wrestle away my money to give it to
>> someone else.  i will give under my own vollition.
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>The question is whether certain social aims can be achieved by relying on
>individual choice.

yep - they can!

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>> * - working through the state diminishes social responsibility because people feel that since there taxes went to help those in need than they don't need to do anymore.  That's bad.
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>I'm not sure this is borne out by historical experience. Generally,
>industrialized countries did not see individuals step in and attempt to
>even the economic playing field, nor support the needy such to assure
>basic quality of life. I expect that there are such effects as you
>describe at the margins, however.
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>One of the reasons why it makes sense to assure basic health care is that
>it is a central precondition of equality of opportunity. Radically unequal
>access to health care creates enormous structural disadvantages for those
>who are less privilidged than others. Lack of health insurance leaves
>people vulnerable to financial collapse. The reliance of those who do not
>have coverage on emergency room care not only drives up their long-term
>costs and drives down their productivity, but also increases the cost of
>medical procedures for the rest of us. In short, there are perfectly good
>reasons to see health care--and health insurance--as a 'core need' for
>citizens of an advanced, industrial democracy which government should
>either provide or take steps to ensure adequate access to. In fact, if
>Bush is your candidate of choice you should be well-aware that his
>policies will also siphon off some of your money for this purpose, through
>the promotion of the scam (and market-segmenting agent) that are MSAs.[*]
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>[*] The Republican fetish for MSAs is actually a pretty good example of
>the corrupting effects of special-interests upon American politics, but
>that's another story.
>
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>Regards, Dan | Columbia Political Science | www.columbia.edu/~dhn2
>"Everyone who has had a referee get the argument of his or her paper
>directly backward has wondered about calling it 'peer' review."
>-- Arthur L. Stinchcombe.
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