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Article #1852Re: Property Rights
From: Robert Sturgeon
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 16:46
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 16:46
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On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 01:25:12 +0000 (UTC), Merlin Dorfman <dorfman@green.rahul.net> wrote: >In ca.general Robert Sturgeon <rsturge@inreach.com> wrote: >> On 4 Jul 2005 07:14:26 -0700, "Transition Zone" >> <mogulah@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> (snips) > >>>> Why do you think people shouldn't be able to control their own money? >>> >>>Because they may not allow enough to flow back into government. > >> What's "enough"? The pro-Big Government people always want >> more. There is never enough. I wonder what would happen if >> they ever said, "OK, the most we will EVER need is X% of the >> GDP. Just give us that, and you can keep the rest. >> Forever." That will never happen, because there is no upper >> limit on the amount of resources they want the government to >> command. Until we actually face the horrors of not enough >> government, the proper response from Small Government >> supporters to every demand for more government money is - >> NO! Can taxes ever be TOO low? I suppose so, but it's not >> something I spend a lot of time worrying about, as it seems >> to be an extremely unlikely risk. > > By "big government people" I assume you mean George W. Bush >and the Republican party...since 2000, the federal budget has >exploded and the record surpluses of the Clinton years have >turned into record deficits stretching off into the future. By "big government people," I mean the people who want the government to be larger, more powerful, and to spend more of the people's resources. There are plenty of them in both major parties. On average, the Democrats seem to be worse. HTH -- Robert Sturgeon Summum ius summa inuria. http://www.vistech.net/users/rsturge/
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