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Old 03-04-2012, 04:36 PM   #39
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I don't like it. It puts a price on freedom and makes the poor more likely to be excluded out of necessity. It's like something out of a dystopian novel.
It's a very dark alley of relinquishment by economic means. Where does it lead? Will the day come when checks come in with offers to women for her eggs, or if you are willing to part with a kidney for the right price - or one cornea. It dovetails nicely with high unemployment and desperation.
And when they've bought all your freedoms and the checks stop coming, then where are you? Pretty close to right here I'd guess. No money and all the bills.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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