[TheForge] Copper-Yak

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Mark these OT please or i'll get suckered into pontificating
while the iron in the forge burns.
I know , I started it, mea culpa...sorry..mmmmph....pf

Andrew Vida wrote:
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> don schad wrote:
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>> Or simply regulated into submission  - who wants to buy carbon credits
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>     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.
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>> 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.
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>     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.
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>> Slag moves down forge, right?
>     Sure.
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