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Look who's demanding "fairness": You. You keep insisting that companies be forced to hand over their intellectual property. And you've twisted that statement into the suggestion that anybody who doesn't agree with you is demanding "fairness in the economy".

It is better to have too little government involvement in the economy than too much. I'd rather err on the side of economic anarchy than economic central planning.

Geezus, dude. Put down the Communist Manifesto and join capitalist society.

Patents are a rejection of the anarchaic free market capitalism of yesteryear. Why should anyone, from you to Microsoft, have to pay anything to use someone else's ideas? You build a better mouse trap and you should be free to sell it to anyone that wants it without paying out your ass in patent fees to the guy who came up with the original mouse trap.

As long as you have patents you won't have true competition. Congress has the authority to provide certain industries like the pharmaceuticals with select protection, but leave the rest unprotected. That's the other side of Article I, Section 8, Clause 3.

And speaking of Communists, how are you liking Bush's Keynesian deficit spending, massive handouts to old people who didn't bother to buy health insurance and/or save for it and calls for more and more cash to be thrown at Iraq? I'm sure there's a good rational argument for adding much of Iraq to the federal payrolls during a time of budgetary crisis.

It is better to have too little government involvement in the economy than too much.

Tell that to Somalia. Or Afghanistan.

Why should anyone, from you to Microsoft, have to pay anything to use someone else's ideas?

First of all, you don't know what you're talking about. Ideas can't be patented. Second, it's in the Constitution. You appear to be a Commie bastard who doesn't give a rat's ass about the rule of law. I'll have to side with the Founding Fathers on this one. I trust them a helluva lot more then some random guy posting on FR.

And speaking of Communists, how are you liking Bush's Keynesian deficit spending, massive handouts to old people who didn't bother to buy health insurance and/or save for it and calls for more and more cash to be thrown at Iraq? I'm sure there's a good rational argument for adding much of Iraq to the federal payrolls during a time of budgetary crisis.

I'm not happy about it. Granted, Bush needs Congress to pass a budget (it's not fair to lay all of it on his shoulders) -- but I don't believe in deficit spending.