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To: Road Walker who wrote (364637)	1/22/2008 9:51:50 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1584438

The fact remains that you want all the bennies of our society without paying (taxes) for them. Quite a few government programs are not benefits of our society, some aren't even gross benefits (beneficial if you don't consider the costs of implementing the program). When you reduce taxes you either cut services or increase debt for the next generation to pay. Not every service the federal government not provides needs to be provided by anyone. And some of the services that are beneficial could be done by states, or by private sources, or by the feds at a lower level. The last does indeed amount to cutting services but doing so isn't always a bad thing. The examples (phones, medical care, arbitration of disputes, roads, energy) already are partially to mostly provided for by the private sector. Roads are mostly government provided, and it would be difficult to transfer the bulk of those costs to the private sector, but the others could become more private quite easily, and in many cases more efficiently an so at reduced cost not increased cost. Every dollar you don't pay today will be incrementally added, with interest, to your tax bill at some point in time. Not if you cut spending.