At 03:45 AM 12/6/94 PST, John E. Kreznar wrote:
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 prefer to let "reality" change people's minds. The USSR didn't fall because millions were convinced that Milton Friedman was right and Karl Marx was wrong. What happened was that the changing circumstances of their lives made it obvious that the old ways could not be continued. Technology and "Market Earth"(tm) will convince people that "others government" is inferior to self government and the modern welfare-warfare state will fall. In retrospect, it will even look like it was inevitable (just like the fall of the commies). Wait 'till the Web + Digital Cash = a market growing so fast that even if the governments *had* to tools to control it, they couldn't be applied because it will have grown beyond the control points before the governments can move. The Market is The Blob (without Steve McQueen). "X The Unknown." DCF "You are a libertarian. You make choices and do what you think best for your life. Stop trying to prevent other people from behaving in the exact and natural way you behave."