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To: SteamshipTime
I do think you are wrong in arguing that an anarchic system must be wrong because it hasn't been voted in. The majority of the electorate consists of net tax consumers who benefit greatly from the current social democratic system.

Thank you for your agreement, it is a pleasure to discourse with an intelligent person. Ref above. My intimation is not that a new system be voted in, but, rather, what form of control would be deployed to keep things on a level keel until a anarchic utopia could be legitimately achieved? I, for one, favor the near elimination of the FED and transfer to power to the inedividual states, but, that plan is rife with problems. Architect seems wrapped up in semantics with little attention to mechanics. What are your views.

Semper Fi

74 posted on 01/14/2002 11:29:06 AM PST by Trident/Delta
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To: Trident/Delta
Still searching. I think the old Articles of Confederation may be a good model: a coalition of sovereign states with their own militias and no federal government. At some point, I plan on reading Murray Rothbard's 4 volume opus on the colonies/states prior to the ratification of the federal constitution, Conceived in Liberty and also Hans Herman-Hoppe's Democracy: The God That Failed. My hypothesis is that the current system is first, not likely to change given the self-interested voting by the electorate, the majority of whom are net tax consumers, and second, simply not sustainable due to ever-increased federal debt and inflated currency.
104 posted on 01/14/2002 12:38:51 PM PST by SteamshipTime
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