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Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]



On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 09:28 -0400, Matthias Julius wrote:
> "Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@familiasanchez.net> writes:
> 
> > Paul Johnson wrote:
> >> 
> >> That's like claiming you're paying twice to cross a toll bridge, never mind 
> >> there are usually alternate (longer) routes and the toll goes away once the 
> >> bridge is paid for...
> >> 
> >
> > Never been to Florida, eh?  It is a state that is criss-crossed with
> > toll roads, where the toll was going to "go away" once the road was
> > payed for.  Some of the roads have been toll roads for something like 30
> > or 40 years.  The problem is that government gets addicted to the money.
> 
> Why should the government be different than everybody else?  It is up
> to the legislative to setup controls over the government.

Especially since government is made up of the same people as
"everybody else".

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