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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Indeed, because those companies that create those things pay no taxes at all. The govt just gives them money to make stuff for us.
And of course Apple and Windows, as we both know, were the products of govt think tanks.
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Now, tell me how it built the internet. You're nothing if not predictable.
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Come on now, you are being intentionally dense. The modern computer, and the internet, is the result of military research. Sure, Apple and Tandy and IBM brought it to a different setting, but they can hardly claim not to have benefited from the earlier government spending.
As for drugs, well, you are mostly just wrong. Nearly all drugs begin with government funded research. Only after they show some promise there do they end up with private companies, who end up with patents that make them rich.
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Removing the govt from the equation would not impede development of anything one bit. It takes with one hand and gives back with the other, creating administrative costs and little more along the way.
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Tell that to the makers of Tang. Or the marketers of AZT as an AIDS drug.
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