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Re:Apple now holding more cash than USA on Saturday July 30, 2011 @05:19AM (#2825356)
Sarcasm?
Re:Apple now holding more cash than USA on Saturday July 30, 2011 @05:13AM (#2825350)
Why, other than for fairness? I have far more confidence that Apple will spend the money in a way that benefits me than that the government will. They certainly have so far.
>wishful thinking to claim that the perfect answer is already known

...which is exactly why to leave it to the market.

...you have the world as it is. You can already move to change governments, only now you have to move farther than you used to. Notice how most of the oppression in the US is from the federal government, not state or municipal ones. We are predisposed to support government as a holdover from our instincts about tribal politics, but tribes never got anywhere near as big as 1/4 billion people. That immense power abuses result should surprise no one.