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To: Dale Baker who wrote (422)	6/5/2005 5:33:20 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 541370

There will be issues if we make any major changes in government, such as cutting 1/3rd, but I don't think its reasonable to expect that anyone will have all the answers about how people will cope and react. For many supporters of small government and strongly free markets one of the very reasons that they are against a large amount of government spending is that we can not predict the consequences of government decisions. If we leave it to people to make their own decisions they will know more about their own life than any government offical. Also if you leave it to individuals you increase liberty. Of course increasing liberty is an ideological goal, and you seem to be trying to avoid such goals. I'm not sure how that can work. Lets turn it around, was there any demand to know all the unexpected consequences and results of Social Security, Medicare, and thousands of other government programs before they where enacted? If you where there are the time would you have insisted that such questions had to be asked and answered before we could impliment the policy? Tim

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