> An immediate/short term way to make everything hunky-dory and avoid all > pain for everyone?� I don't see one.� I don't think there is one. > > Long term?� Remind the "public servants" on Goat Hill in Montgomery that > their job is to serve the *public*, not ALFA, Paul Hubbard, etc. >
Except...the people want services and don't want to pay for them, and refuse to accept that you can't have it both ways. The public has to bear some of the responsibility for the coming disaster, too. They have to stop listening to anti-tax demagogues who genuinely want to shut government down and don't care who it hurts. Taxes aren't fun, but if you do entirely without them, things get even worse. Tom Beck www.prydonians.org www.mercerjewishsingles.org "I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed I'd see the last." - Dr Jerry Pournelle _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
