"kontiki" wrote in message
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Jay Honeck wrote:
I still can't honestly
come up with something the government does well.... besides
spend other people's money.

Small-town local governments occasionally function well. Once a city
grows beyond ~25,000 people, everything gets dicey.

An excellent argument for smaller government.

Perhaps.

But the large the population, the more likely there exists a subset that
thinks government should "do things for them", that they should be doing
themselves, like providing recreation, educating their kids...

A bigger city is just statistically more likely to have those folks.

I'm often amazed at how many people, out here in the west, moved here from
back east or California "..because the taxes were so high!", but within a
couple years are whining that "back in xxxxx, the city did this for us and
that for us...". They just can't figure it out. Normally, the original
locals find such dependence irritating, but eventually get voted down at
holding the line.


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Matt Barrow
Performance Homes, LLC.
Cheyenne, WY