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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (229660)4/18/2005 7:18:55 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 1576663
 
re: It is indeed an issue. If they start doing more than they control even more. It might be only a small increment but that's how government got all the power it has now, through small increments.

and

re: The extra spending bothers me less than the extra government control over how resources get used and where investments are maid. Extra government spending is only a part of that larger issue.

First, those statements seem to contradict.

How do you see them as contradictory? They aren't identical but they both are statements against expanding government control. The 2nd statement qualifies that the extra spending is only part of the larger issue of expanding government control. The government can control something without spending a lot of money.

Second, who do you think controls all of the revenue the government receives?

Congress controls it to a large extent and the people who administer various government departments control it to a finer extent. What's you point? That we vote for congress so that the people of the US control the money? That is true but it doesn't change a thing about my point. Democratically directed government power tends to be better than what you get from a dictatorship but it still leads to reduced freedom and often to reduced economic growth.

Tim
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