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To: Cogito who wrote (76593)	7/28/2008 4:08:20 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 543222

To the extent that the Patriot act is problematic or questionable, its more an issue that some assert its at least a small step towards hard totalitarianism. If it is at all, its a very small step IMO, and in any case its a different issue than what de Tocqueville was talking about. Only related to the extent that steps like it could be taken to help enforce all of those "small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate" I would also prefer a smaller government, and lower taxes. I'd like to see a flat tax. Glad to here it, but how many liberals (not counting "classical liberals" or "economic liberals", which have a different meaning than "liberal" does in American politics) support those ideas? I'd like to see churches pay taxes on investments, if not contributed income. Whatever the merits or demerits of such a policy, its questionable that such a move would represent "smaller government".