To: weikel
Yeah, but getting rid of the guys in power is a lot bloodier with a dictatorship. Are we using the technical democracy vs. republic definition? I'm not proponent of direct democracy, BTW.
376 posted on
09/13/2002 6:07:11 PM PDT by
jjm2111
To: jjm2111
Just look at the taxes in the 18th century absolutist states they tended to be very low and there was no welfare state.
377 posted on
09/13/2002 6:16:05 PM PDT by
weikel
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