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Originally Posted by rebound
Big Oil and Haliburton stole it to take it to Iraq and bill the U.S. government.
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Would not surprise me one bit.
If they could put a meter on the air, the government would pass laws privatizing the air. Companies would then claim ownership of the air and charge you to breath. The government would then have welfare programs to pay for those who could not afford to pay for breathing air, and people like you would complain that your tax money is paying for lazy bums to breath. The conservative radio talk show hosts would complmain that our tax money is paying for illegal alliens to breath our air.
On the other hand, socialist countries would just allow everyone to breath the air. No ownership of the air, no tax money to pay for the air, no cost for the meters to measure the air, and no profit made from people breathing.
The capitalist economists would calculate that the air industry in the United States totals $200 billion, and of course would count that figure when they calculate our GDP and the size & growth of our economy.
Sorry for the thread drift. You make fun of my ideas, but you just don't realize that most of how our economy works is not much different than this kooky example. You are just used to it, so it doesn't appear to you as being wasteful and rediculous.