and his whole argument is utterly stupid. the government's job is to act on its citizens behalf, and presumably in a manner that its citizens agree with. if private citizens and private corporations are donating gazillions of their own dollars, presumably it's because they feel it's the right thing to do. if they're doing it on their own, why would anyone translate that to they don't want the government to do the same thing? the government's job is to speak for the nation as a whole. if the citizens are donating on their own, why wouldn't they want the nation to do the same thing?
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Date: 2005-01-01 01:38 am (UTC)