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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (229820)4/18/2005 7:42:18 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) of 1576888
 
In the first "statement" your problem is with "small increments", in your second you say "The extra spending bothers me less than the extra government control over how resources get used". It's obvious to the casual reader that you are shifting around... but maybe it all makes sense in your head.

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

My point is that you said: "The extra spending bothers me less than the extra government control over how resources get used and where investments are maid <sic>." Government ALREADY controls the resources as you admit; how can you say: "bothers me less than the extra government control over how resources get used"? More contradiction.

re: 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.

It's hard to figure sometimes what's going on in the philosophical abyss of your libertarian mind.

Besides, we are off the original topic (which always happens with you), the positives and negatives of government intervention to make our automobile fleet more efficient.

John
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