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Abolish the IRS & UN while you're at it!
Let businesses pay only for the private police force they need (private citizens are safe).

Let voters pay their congressmen only for "services rendered" (if you can't pay you shouldn't be an American).

Sorry, but your "free market" ideas for communications don't work any better than the "trickle down" economic theories of the past.
Yes, I agree the current system appears to be broken but the proposed solution is more like cutting off your head to cure acne.

Besides, the ITU is patterned after the FCC and the US has treaty obligations that would probably leave us defenseless without the FCC or similar regulatory body.
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Yes, if...  FirstNLastN | 06/07/04
(NT) Wow, that was more or less impossible to understand...  James T. Kirk | 06/07/04
phwew....  JoeMama_z | 06/07/04
Don't think you understood the theory...  DarbyOhara | 06/07/04
Wrong solution  daver_z | 06/07/04
...Wrong for Whom?  Dave E._z | 06/09/04
Almost right...  strawbrn | 06/10/04
First Amendment  Font | 06/10/04
Estonia?  dhopp@... | 06/07/04
Re: Estonia  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 06/08/04
What a Foolish thought  cygnet@... | 06/07/04
Um,  Patrick Jones | 06/07/04
Station managers aren't Gods, neither should we let them pretend they are  daver_z | 06/07/04
I don't have a subject  Patrick Jones | 06/08/04
Hmmm...  Dave E._z | 06/09/04
Apply this elsewhere  Font | 06/10/04
Abolish Traffic Citations  voiceofreason_z | 06/07/04
Insurance  SC-man | 06/08/04
Public Safety  Font | 06/10/04
Abolish the IRS & UN while you're at it!  kd5auq | 06/07/04
yes, let's!  eLurker | 06/07/04
Yes do abolish the IRS  Linux User 147560 | 06/07/04
Yes do abolish the IRS  SC-man | 06/08/04
if you want the free life  V Sanders | 06/08/04
What are you talking about?  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 06/08/04
Abolishing "inconvenient" regulations...  kd5auq | 06/08/04
Straw men 2  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 06/09/04
Your neighbor can be on HIS property...  kd5auq | 06/09/04
You're still missing the point  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 06/09/04
I think you're missing the point  Middle of the Road | 06/10/04
Nonsense............  Dave E._z | 06/09/04
Nonsense  Middle of the Road | 06/10/04
How Would This Be Different With A Bureaucracy In Charge of Arbitration?  Dave E._z | 06/11/04
Oh Yeah  rcaryl | 06/10/04
True Free markets never work  xshakes | 06/07/04
Define, don't abolish.  Anton Philidor | 06/07/04
I disagree  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 06/08/04
Advocate needed  Anton Philidor | 06/08/04
You forget the premis, citizen's own the air ways.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/07/04
wow I agree with you!  nograin | 06/07/04
Re: Citizens  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 06/08/04
Yes, no and sort of...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/08/04
However,  Patrick Jones | 06/08/04
Ham Operator  Middle of the Road | 06/10/04
Re:  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 06/09/04
John, John, John,  kd5auq | 06/09/04
Property Rights  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 06/09/04
I don't accept the concept of ownership...  kd5auq | 06/09/04
Re: Citizens  John L. Ries | 06/11/04
Land Use  TrustMe_z | 06/11/04
citizens own the airways  elfmaid | 06/10/04
Public Ownership Myth  richardpor | 06/13/04
True Free Markets Alway Work  Raidient | 06/07/04
I can't tell!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/07/04
What characterizes the wealthiest nations?  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 06/08/04
Gut check  Yagotta B. Kidding | 06/08/04
Straw men  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 06/09/04
Checks OK  Dave E._z | 06/09/04
In a "True free market" we'd still have...  kd5auq | 06/07/04
True free market work great  voska | 06/07/04
Slavery is the Conservative Answer  cygnet@... | 06/07/04
Only when...  Tim Patterson | 06/07/04
The FCC does not make the Rules  cygnet@... | 06/07/04
"anarchy" in a "free" market?  kd5auq | 06/07/04
"anarchy" in a "free" market  Middle of the Road | 06/10/04
fcc does not make the rules  elfmaid | 06/10/04
Let us internet folks battle it out  Middle of the Road | 06/10/04
FCC Does Not Make the Rules  Middle of the Road | 06/10/04
Dumb Idea  middle of nowhere | 06/07/04
Many things..  Patrick Jones | 06/08/04
Lets just Abolish all Governments  cygnet@... | 06/07/04
Admit it... you just want more skin on Public TV  daver_z | 06/07/04
I do  Patrick Jones | 06/08/04
the world would be a  V Sanders | 06/08/04
Spectrum is not like Land  A.Sinic | 06/08/04
Time To Go ?  ParadigmOdyssey | 06/08/04
Astounding  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 06/08/04
not Astounding just your blindness about human nature  xshakes | 06/08/04
Amen! [NT]  WhoIsDaMan | 06/08/04
Translated  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 06/09/04
People are stupid  Middle of the Road | 06/10/04
Another Amen  Middle of the Road | 06/10/04
ASTOUNDING  elfmaid | 06/10/04
Not at all  John L. Ries | 06/11/04
Spectrum (unlike land) has no physical boundries...  kd5auq | 06/09/04
Abolish the FCC  larry.lord@... | 06/10/04
the FCC is the big brother we were warned about....  elfmaid | 06/10/04
No can do  Middle of the Road | 06/10/04
Kill the FCC? Don't think so!  whulse | 06/10/04
Yep...  John L. Ries | 06/11/04
I Agree with author  larry1_z | 06/12/04
Amateur, Police, Fire and Aircraft Radio Use  Freon | 06/12/04
Nice thought but it doesn't do anything  trogers_z | 06/13/04

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