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To: TimF who wrote (35317)	5/2/2009 11:21:23 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 71588

Re: "The technical process for overturning one type of law is identical to the process for overturning another." That's right.... (I would generally argue that, in relative order of 'easiness', it's 1) administrative regulation, 2) law, 3) Constitutional provision....) Re: "But in practice major new entitlements or programs that build special interests are difficult, sometimes impossible to overturn...." Of course that is right (except for the 'impossible' part. Little-to-nothing in human affairs is truly 'impossible'). The longer some defined group has to benefit from government policy, the more they will come to expect it to continue as their 'due'. (Be that a loosely defined group where targeted policies of favoritism have applied... financial services / banking... sugar producers... ethanol... etc., or transfer payment beneficiaries such as retirees and others.)