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To: LindyBill who started this subject	9/3/2003 2:07:35 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) of 793846

The Ratchet Phenomenon of Big Government independent.org "...commonly employed indexes of the size of government display the “ratchet phenomenon” during the 20th century: government grew suddenly much bigger with the onset of each great crisis; after the crisis it receded but usually not to the precrisis level nor even to a level that would have been reached had the precrisis rate of growth persisted instead of being displaced by the events of the crisis. Thus, crisis typically has produced not just a temporarily bigger government but also permanently bigger government..."

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