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To: Lane3 who wrote (404)	6/5/2005 1:14:09 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) of 541355

I have never heard anyone debate the size of government and say, spending should be exactly x% according to my Optimum Government Size Model. I never have, in fact. The ideologues want to quote flowery phrases about government inefficiency or how government helps the unfortunate. How does that operationalize into a budget the Congress can pass? As for free market vs. government intervention, try this. Take an ordinary product like apples or an ordinary service like insurance. Now think about everything that goes into creating, distributing and marketing that product, then the number of consumers and their interests in a safe, reliable product. Each involves thousands of people ultimately with dozens or hundreds of concerns that legal regulations have to spell out. The myth that a magical free market exists that government won't "interfere" in is a rampant fantasy. Ask the free marketers if they want a legal system so they can sue a customer who doesn't pay for his apple shipment. He wants a government-administered guarantee to make the "free market" work. I could get a lot more complex but that would just be annoying. ;<)

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