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To: koan who wrote (48237)	7/9/2013 12:44:52 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

If Brian has me on ignore how does he know what I post? My ideas must threaten him terribly for him to want to try and silence me. Who in history has always tried to silence people? I try to keep my posts to ideas most the time. And I get a lot more insults than I ever post. I appreciate Paul's tolerance in any event.

To: koan who wrote (48237)	7/9/2013 1:11:42 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Recommended By sm1th Respond to of 85487

My only point is really that whoever has the power is the one you have to worry about taking advantage of that power. With smaller government there is less to take advantage of. Wall Street spent more money on the last election than any other group. They were buying congress. Because congress is selling (and so are presidents past and present). If the government stops sticking its nose in to business, business won't stick its nose in to the government. It won't be able to benefit from doing so if the government stops handing out all these benefits. But when the government does stick its nose in, then business try to control it for both "offensive" reasons (getting subsidies, locking out competition etc.) and defensive (keeping the government from adding expenses to their business, or subsidizing their competition, etc.) Simply stop throwing around the subsidies, and the anti-competitive regulation, and not only do you get the direct benefits of lower costs and more competition, you also get less of the "plutocrats" influencing and welding power through government.