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Shrinking government
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H. Keith Henson writes
> It may be that a general cutting down on the powers of the Federal
> Government is in order.
How could you doubt it?
> This has pros and cons,
Name a con.
> and support (in some areas) even from the RR.
That's ok. Without a government to wield, they would be ignorable.
> How *does* one shrink the unshrinkable? Tax revolts (in the
> form of massive political pressure) seem to come about when the tax
> rates get as high as they are now.
Tax revolts do no good. Taxes are the _result_, not the cause.
The cause of big government is popular gratuitous acceptance of
government favor.
If you want to shrink government, you've got to begin by changing the
minds of a hundred million of your neighbors who think it's civilized to
take a government job or contract, accept social security, apply for an
SBA loan or FEMA assistance, and on down the list.
I know a tax revolter who held an anti-tax rally on a tax-funded picnic
ground without even noticing or acknowledging the inconsistency.
This is why it's unshrinkable. We have met the enemy, and he is us.
John E. Kreznar | Relations among people to be by
[email protected] | mutual consent, or not at all.
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