Wojtek Sent from my Droid On Apr 24, 2013 2:35 PM, "martin schiller" <mschiller at pobox.com> wrote:
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> On Apr 24, 2013, at 6:56 AM, c b wrote:
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> http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/12/11/explaining-socialism-to-a-republican/
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> Sounds like an overly nuanced explanation, and an unusual case, in which
> the 'republican' listens.
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> My preference when explaining my pov to conservatives is to employ the
> 'corporation' argument, in which the government it portrayed as the creator
> of all corporations, and is thus a super-corporation. It has all the
> characteristics of a corp - officers, a board of directors, a legal
> department, and best of all - shareholders. Those would be us, the people.
> Equal shareholders with non-transferrable shares. Republicans and
> conservatives understand corporations, and seem to favor them. This
> argument makes all of them shareholders in their own super-corp, and when
> the argument commences, it should be easy to argue for the government to do
> a better job of extracting a profit from it's management of our resources,
> and sharing that profit as dividends to the shareholders.
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