> tBone wrote: > You limit the government to those powers specifically contained in the > constitution, get rid of all these federal government programs (medical, > SS, R&D, any welfare or buy outs, education and so on) any of those > states that want those programs can have them. You use tariffs, trade > stamps and import licenses to generate funds for the government. >
But then some of that has been tried. Social Security, for example, because people aren't will to watch old people live in the streets. You can say that it would be up to each state, but then the wealth disparity is so high that you'd end up with arbitrage - i.e., why live in North Dakota where the SS tax is 15% when you can move to South Dakota where it's 5%? Then you end up with ND full of medieval ghettos of old people. In short, I don't see how any of that can work anymore and I've studied it. Plus, you look at our current crisis - which extends WAY WAY WAY beyond, say, New York's borders, and the truth is that Americans are not willing to let things fail. There's a new saying: just as there are no atheists in foxholes, there are no libertarians in an economic crisis. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:270335 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
