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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Frank Griffin who wrote (17714)4/28/2000 9:27:00 AM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
receiving some of our tax dollars in some way
Actually I pay way more in taxes than the cost of services to me. (My tax bill this year was higher than the medium income for the U.S.)

I support the government because it is the best in the world. You can't have a big, powerful, important country with a weak government, but I don't want a dictatorship, I want the fragmented power structure we have which means that everyone needs to look out for each others rights. There's room for improvement, but this idea that if the federal government is drasticly weakened that somehow the states will do a better job, is foolish and dangerous. We could easily be a bickering mess like Europe (which is a nice place but can't get it's act together so long as they are a dozen or more separate governing entities).
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