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To: Buckhead
Federalist 10 refutes your premise that problems with corruption in goverment flow from modern redistributionist policies.

That wasn't my premise. I just cited redistribution as an example of the government ignoring and violating, rather than protecting, individual rights.

In fact, the problem of corruption in goverment flows from human nature

You mean:

human nature = corrupt

?

I don't think God created us corrupt. Nor do I think that money corrupts people. To paraphrase the pro-2nd-Amendment slogan: "Money doesn't corrupt people. People corrupt themselves."

without regard to the size of government.

As I said on Day 7, it's not a question of size; it's a question of whether or not individual rights are respected.

17 posted on 12/19/2003 12:21:07 PM PST by Smile-n-Win (Compassion for your enemies is a betrayal of your friends.)
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