[TheForge] Copper-Yak

[Andrew Vida]

don schad wrote:

> Or simply regulated into submission  - who wants to buy carbon credits

	Dont' get me started on that crap.  It is a mega-disaster in the wings 
that will wreck a lot of small businesses.  That could be the idea 
behind it.

> for that forge?  By the time it gets to the forge you will have
> already purchased quite a few as the steel/coal/propane moves down the
> food chain, so what's a few more?   But don't worry, your money will
> be redistributed "fairly".   No matter that it doesn't even begin to
> address the problem for which it was sold as.
> 
> Fact is, as blacksmiths we already pay a high price for the over
> regulation of industries and the environent by the government.
> Industries don't absorb the costs of regulation/taxation, they pass
> them on to you, the consumer (either directly (price) or indirectly
> (401k)).    While BSing might always be suficently small not to
> attract the direct attention of busy-bodies, the raw materials which
> we need very likely will, and the end result will be the same - all
> but a few can practice the craft because the overhead is too high.

	Good points.  Basic economic models clearly show just how evil taxation 
really is.  There is NOTHING good about them for an economy.  Not a 
single thing.
> 
> Slag moves down forge, right?
	Sure.