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To: DMaA who wrote (15890)	3/20/2000 9:36:00 PM
From: Brian P.	Respond to of 769667

I'm not talking about coercing anyone. Tax policy, though, can be a democratic instrument of constructive social change. You mean we can't have a train system without coercing people with an evil cabal of Soviet-style central planners? Do you seek a non-society of atomistic individuals linked by nothing more than market forces and their selfish interests? Read Kennan and Kay.

To: DMaA who wrote (15890)	3/20/2000 11:50:00 PM
From: Brian P.	Respond to of 769667

"What America drives, drives America." --slogan of the American Automobile Manufacturers Association [1] . __________________________ [1] Jane Holtz Kay, Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take it Back (New York: Random House, 1997), p. xiii

To: DMaA who wrote (15890)	3/20/2000 11:52:00 PM
From: Brian P.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

"You're not stuck in a traffic jam, you are the jam." --German public transport campaign "It was the thing I most regretted leaving behind." --President Bill Clinton surveying a Mustang in Phoenix "It's not a car. It's an aphrodisiac." --Infiniti advertisement launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Earth Day [1] . __________________________ [1] Jane Holtz Kay, Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take it Back (New York: Random House, 1997), p. 13