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To: TimF who wrote (16449)	4/27/2017 5:29:10 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 364831

So what is your point? Message #16449 from TimF at 4/27/2017 4:10:58 PM but democratic socialism does not involve central planning, it involves democracy starting at the local level and working its way up through state and federal and all decisions are done according to the people and their representatives. If the feds (central government) are deciding than it is central planning, representative democracy is irrelevant to that specific point. If state or local governments are planning the economy, you could argue that they aren't "the center", but "central planning" doesn't imply a large jurisdiction or no higher level political authority. You can have central planning on a very small scale. OTOH democratic socialism in practice is only partial planning. Your talking about mixed economies, not communism, a large portion of the economy is still market driven now centrally planned. In fact some countries who are seen as more socialist (because of higher taxes and more generous social benefits), are actually in a number of ways freer and less planned by the government then the US (which has an enormous body of regulations and government controls on all levels).