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To: tejek who wrote (134379)	3/9/2001 5:47:22 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 1575439

Yeah, it does when the society in general is hurt. No desire to keep what your own wealth is not greed. "Society in general" might be hurt by the debt, but if the government spends more then it brings in then it should reduce spending. Even keeping spending steady (in inflation adjusted dollars) will eliminate all the government debt, even after a tax cut. LA's murder rate is greater than all of Japan's. And yet the 2nd amendment is held up as the standard by which we refuse to disarm ourselves. The non-gun murder rate in Japan is also much lower then the non-gun murder rate in the US. Japan's culture and society is different, as are their law enforcement practices. Its bull...do we not put up stop lights because it would restrict our freedom of movement. No. It would endanger other people. Do we allow unlimited speeding on our freeways? No...because it would endanger other people? Do we permit the mass arming of the population? Yes....even though it endangers all of us. Allowing me to have a gun in no way endagers you or (because you don't live close to me) my neighbors. In fact it may increases the safety of people around me because its possible that I could defend them against crime. You live in a world that is too populated to not have gov't. You need to accept it and to accept that this gov't requires $$$ to run and that you are responsible for maintaining that gov't and insuring that it protects the well-being of all its citizens. 1,000 years ago we had a world too populated not to have governmen't. Even primitive tribes of huntergathers had some form of government. I'm not an anarchist. However supporting the idea of government does not mean that government should get a blank check to take more of our wealth and freedom year after year and to ignore the constitution when it becomes an inconvienient check on government's expantion. And if you can not handle that, then I suggest you go to a very rural place like MT or WY, or the outback in Australia where gov't is minimal. I would not avoid the reach of the epanding American government in MT or WY. In the outback I might get away from it (if I renounce my citizenship) but Australia probably has even higher tax rates and its own huge bundle of regulation. What would be the point of moving to any of these places? Besides if there is a bad thing happening in a basically good place (too much taxes and regulations in the US) why not fight the bad thing rather then leave. If the tax cuts go in to effect and maybe some other changes you don't like happen are you planning to leave the US? Tim

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