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From: orb@whuts.UUCP (SEVENER)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Reply to Sevener on Property Rights
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Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 09:13:45 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 24 09:13:45 1986
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> 
> >How
> >company towns controlled every aspect of people's lives and made a profit
> >on every aspect of their lives.
> > 
> >         tim sevener   whuxn!orb
> 
> I don't mean to sound flippant.  However, done by such a company town,
> it would be called exploitation; done by the State, it would be called
> legislation, regulation, and taxation.  Hmmm.
> 
> David Olson
> ..!ihnp4!drutx!dlo

1)in the United States so far as I know there are no towns totally
  owned and controlled by the State (unless you wish to count
  military bases, which actually generally come under separate and
  independent municipal jurisdictions)
 
2)there were no elections to determine either officials or policies
  of  company towns when they existed. The company, usually owned and
  controlled by either one family or one person, determined everything
  autocratically.  Such is *not* the case with local governments.
  Even if they may be controlled by elites, they at least must face
  elections.  Many machines have lost their power by being voted out
  of office. (e.g. Daley's previously invincible machine lost the
  mayor's office)
 
             tim sevener  whuxn!orb