I'm responding against my better judgement, but I'm worried that noobs might mistake franky's posts for factual information.
in a true freemarket the bitcoin QT should not be asking for fee's, the bitcoin QT should notcare if its 5ksat or 1million bitcoin that is sent.
In a free market, nobody would use a client that asks for excessive fees. In any case, Bitcoin-QT in fact
does not care how much you send or how much you pay in fees. The
mintxfee option allows you to pay as much or as little in fees as you want.