Al6—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, July 19,1980
Letters To
The Editor
Dear Editor:
The statement in your July
12 editorial that having the
ability to pay does not entitle
people to energy is a bit
skewed. There are too many
people that feel that they
have the right to tell other
people how to run their lives
and how to spend their
money.
And if the people being told
don’t listen to the folks doing
the telling insist that they
have the right to call in
societies cercive arm
government.
People do have a right to
spend their labor where they
want to.
If a farmer would prefer to
use gasoline or diesel energy
to grow his crops instead of
using horsepower--that
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hundred years ago, there
were zillions of barrels of
energy m the ground Was
there anyone running
around, writing editoi mis
suggesting that it be saved’
I doubt it
Rather, the folks were
telling us (and the govern
ment) that they should make
the oil producers take a
smaller profit so that the
farmers could have cheap
energy-so that the con
sumer could have cheap
food
This is where the free
market system comes in.
When items are abundant,
the price is low. When items
are scarce, the pnce goes
up.
If I prefer to spend money
for driving 80 miles an hour
(on the interstates that were
designed for 100 miles per
houi-and built win. n.y tax
money that was taken from
me by force or intimidation)
so that I can spend an extra
couple of hours at the beach
that should be my choice Ifl
prefer to drive 80 miles an
hour instead of paying to use
energy to drive a plane or a
bus to take me on a foreign
country tour-that should be
my choice
I have a right to energy-if
I can pay for it
Have a good day, and kick
the dirt off your boots before
you come in the house
M. Hawn
West Chester
Dear Editor,
I disagree strongly with
your proposed solution to the
economic plight of Penn
sylvania mushroom
growers Your editorial
states, “While we continue to
believe m the principle of
free trade, .mushrooms
constitute a special case ” It
then goes on to propose new
tariffs and import duties.
It is precisely this attitude
on the part of thousands of
special interest groups
across the country that has
brought upon us the
mountains of bureaucratic
regulation of which we now
complain. Each suppliant,
from the small businessman
and shoe manufacturers to
Chrysler, goes hat in hand to
Washington seeking
protection from competition.
Each has the same story
“I really behve in free
markets for the other guv,
but my case is different ”
The result is a maze of
regulations, restrictions and
tariffs, which do nothing to
increase the efficiency of
domestic producers, but
which do raise considerably
the cost to consumers. This
translates into inflation,
about which we also com
plain
We have brought this
situation upon ourselves by
asking the government to do
too much. If minimum wage
laws, taxes, and regulations
are responsible for
preventing the mushroom
growers from competing
effectively, the answer is not
still more government in
tervention.
FARMERS
CORP.
9 East Mam Street, Lititz, PA 717-626-4721
Instead, we should all
work to have the offending
laws changed and to ha-®Vi
the regulations ana
restrictions removed,
Carolyn Cosentino
Rochester, N.Y.
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