To: Flightdeck; JohnGalt
this is a sad truth i must point out. if we decentraized our government, we would weaken our deffenses as the local governments would either A) not have the funding to do a good job. B) not have tyhe programs to do a good job. or C) instead of a party system, we would get several states forming alliances to vote against other states. im sure its easy to see how that would escalate.
i did not have a problem with the Confederate States when they left the US, and have some shame that the US attacked them anyway. but because of the Civil War, we are now the super-power we've come to be. an eventual good out of it.
if we broke apart now, im not sure that the outcome would be as exculsive to US only. which i could only see in the result of us being carved like a 5000/1 scale model of Berlin.
To: MacDorcha
What good has the DC tax regime brought us? That is an awfully large presumption on your part.
220 posted on
01/09/2004 10:11:31 AM PST by
JohnGalt
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