[13423] in Cypherpunks
RE: A CC of my letter to Gelernter@cs.yale.edu
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blanc Weber)
Tue May 10 17:30:19 1994
From: Blanc Weber <blancw@microsoft.com>
To: m5@vail.tivoli.com
Date: Tue, 10 May 94 14:21:06 PDT
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Mike McNally
I don't think an economic argument will really fly well, though I'd
love to be shown to be way wrong. Seems to me that a mass-produced
chip whose production is subsidized by the government would probably
be pretty cheap.
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I think an economic argument may be more of what "they" would be
attentive to, since it is the issue with which they concern themselves
the most - the economic situation of the country, and their need to
be in control of its facade.
A problem: subsidization would mean higher taxes.
Blanc
