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Article #8248Re: Deranged, Disconnected, and Dangerous
From: Dr. Zarkov
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:25
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:25
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Daniel Packman wrote: > Lady Libertarian <Lady_Libertarian@FreeWorld.xxx> wrote: >>pack@pack.acd.ucar.edu.ucar.edu (Daniel Packman) wrote : > ..... > >>>Do you have an example of a country that is funded by such a >>>model? > > >>Before the light bulb came out, no one had an example of that >>either, but the U.S. was very close to this when it was first >>founded. > > > Perhaps its trend away from this model rather than toward > it suggests either the desirability of such a mechanism and/or > the likelihood of its implementation. What it suggests is that governments will accumulate power and grow. Government agencies and bureaucrats never willingly give up power. As Milton Friedman put it: "The big problem with government...is that once you start doing something, you establish vested interests, and it's extremely difficult to stop and turn that around...If an experiment in private enterprise is unsuccessful, people lose money and they have to close it down. If an experiment in government is unsuccessful, it's always expanded." --Milton Friedman (Nobel Prize in economics, 1976) Booknotes Interview by Brian Lamb One solution is obvious: Eliminate government altogether; or at least allow people to locally decide how much government they will have on land they have some legitimate claim to.
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