-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 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 jkreznar@ininx.com | mutual consent, or not at all. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLuRNEsDhz44ugybJAQHpIgP/a3fFhRrub8X3KQu5EHYy94+nsfOu788b Mv2yXisQSEBjUR41IIU7ieTzq5B9nPHY3D2wWJ70EQmZOJ2bWQl1HMosoRSwd3eL oNZQvu+DPsvZFAge/BQyFjCDaQCme9Xm+rXC8psqGmGT9avQE7ti+OSEnFQ+lSJj FYv/Lj69vlM= =4m98 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----