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- From: starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Tim Starr)
- Newsgroups: alt.politics.greens
- Subject: Re: Gas Tax?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.084322.7651@genie.slhs.udel.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 08:43:22 GMT
- References: <4l!sh3k@santafe.edu> <1678600170@igc.apc.org>
- Organization: UDel, School of Life & Health Sciences
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- In article <1678600170@igc.apc.org> Dale McMillen <dmcmillen@igc.apc.org> writes:
- }>Either Greens truly support decentralism, in which case they ought to
- }>oppose taxation, or they merely want central authority which is a little
- }>less centralized in some vague, unspecified way, or their hypocritical.
- }>There are probably Greens in all three camps.
- }
- }You make a good point here, however, I would disagree with your definition
- }of decentralism. I don't see decentralism as the ability of each individual
- }to do whatever they wish subject to market forces, but that the locus for
- }decision making be at the community level where all members of the community
- }can participate in the decisions.
-
- To be blunt, you fall into the latter of the two categories I gave.
-
- Since you have taken this position, how is it justified? If a high degree
- of centralization or participation is bad, a lower degree is certainly not
- as bad, but that doesn't make it good. Surely the least evil would be
- full decentralization, but if not, why?
-
- If centralism is bad because it excludes some from directing their lives,
- then this applies to all centralization of authority, not just the most
- extreme form of it.
-
- Tim Starr - Renaissance Now! - Think Universally, Act Selfishly
- starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu
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- oneself and others." - Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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