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To: Zoltan! who wrote (11864)	2/22/2000 3:42:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Address should be itsyourcountry/butnotyourmoney.com

To: Zoltan! who wrote (11864)	2/22/2000 5:27:00 PM
From: chalu2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Why would it be so beneficial to pass the power back to states and localities when you do not know what laws state legislators, alderman and municipal councils will pass? My view is that state and local legislators are just as apt to pass oppressive laws and taxes, and probably (because less attention is focused on them) more subject to corruption and to the temptations of graft. I have seen local school boards and city councils in action, and some of the decisions made are absurd, some seem the acts of petty dictators hungering for the ego gratification that the exercise of power gives them, and some are simply repressive. Reform? No, there is no utopia created when power shifts from one group of bureaucrats to another. Power corrupts at any level.

To: Zoltan! who wrote (11864)	2/26/2000 11:12:00 AM
From: Dr. Peter E. Pflaum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

wiredbrain.com see wiredbrain.com regional government is a new form of federalism - 50 states are too many - one fed is too few - 10 regions of about 20 million are about right - require all agencies that can send everyone they can and all authority they can to the regions - Chicago - Dallas - Denver - Atlanta - regional governments - The question is not limited government, or not but the government you need and not more then we need - government that works in a modern society. The issue is not for the government or against the government but good government -