>         Now, when something is owned by everybody, WHO gets 
> to decide what the asking price is ? The govt. of course ? 
> The nation-state ? the UN ? The god-designated leader ? 
> Majority  rule ? Rousseau ? 
> 
>         And even worse. If everybody is selling something, 
> then WHO is buying it ??? Do you see that common property is 
> a contradiction in terms ?
> Do you see that prices can't exist in a common property 
> scenario ? If something is common it can not be sold or bought...
> 
>         So in practice the politicians own the country and 
> they sell it to their friends. And the firms who buy licenses 
> from the politicians get back the money they spent in 
> 'licensing' when they sell their stuff to the consumers ('we 
> the people')

All good points. But you haven't addressed that issue of the damage done to
A when B burns the gasoline and pollutes the air. How does ownership or the
lack there of affect air quality? How do we add the cost of cleaning up the
air to the cost of buying the gas?

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James.
 

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