[MEGoody]

You bake 6 loaves of bread. Government comes along and takes 1 to give to those who don't have (because they won't bake) bread.

Again, you bake 6 loaves. This time they take 2 to give to those who won't bake.

Next time - 6 loaves, they take 3.

During this period, you've had politicians on one side saying "yes, lets just take one more loaf" and politicans on the other side saying "no, lets take it all!"

It is true that eventually you will starve to death either way (i.e. taking 1 more loaf each time you bake vs taking it all now), but you will survive longer if they only increase it by one at a time.

And you just may survive long enough to figure out a way to stop the madness.

[super7man]

Or you just quit baking bread and magically somebody brings you a loaf of bread.

[Turtlepower]

“And you just may survive long enough to figure out a way to stop the madness.”

That is one survival strategy, but it assumes that the bread won’t run out for a long time. In today’s economy, that maybe a poor assumption.

Another survivial strategy is to blow up both sides and form a new 3rd side that won’t take bread from you at all...