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From: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: federal vs. state
Message-ID: <662@loral.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 18-Nov-84 18:59:37 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 18 18:59:37 1984
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Reply-To: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard)
Organization: Loral Instrumentation, San Diego, CA
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Summary: 

In article <678@gloria.UUCP> colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) writes:
>> 	The local tax increases have not cancelled the cuts at the
>> federal level, only reduced them somewhat.  Secondly, the shift of
>> responsibility from the federal to state and local levels is not at all
>> undesirable.  One of Reagan's principles, one on which I agree with
>> him, is that many functions heretofore handled at the federal level
>> belong at the more-responsive state and local levels.
>
>One of the historic advantages of national governments is that they can
>defend people against local oppressions.  This is what was once called
>"the King's justice." Not that the King's agents were necessarily in-
>corruptible, but they were harder to corrupt than local authorities.

	I was not attempting to place an unconditional, black-and-white
preference for state and local handling of everything, just to show
that, while SOME of the reduction in tax burden at the federal level
has been made up in state and local increases, that is often a positive
change.  Education, public assistance, some medical programs, etc. are
better handled locally.  It also makes little sense to me to enact
"revenue sharing" programs which cause tax money sent to Washington to
be sent back where it came from (after much attrition). Seems a bit
more sensible to cut out the middleman and just leave it there.
-- 

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Ray Simard
Loral Instrumentation, San Diego
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