Frollicking mole:
Efficiency in government (ie: passing more laws doing more “stuff”) is always to the detriment of freedom. The “old days” bloke who set up governments ended ...https://www.samizdata.net/2015/06/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-581/#comment-684506
Jerry, I did not claim that decentralization can be realistically achieved under current conditions (I don't have a definite opinion on that), I only pointed out that what was described in that (...
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if you think decentralization doesn’t matter, why vote in the referendum on leaving the EU?because it eliminates a tier of government.
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I am very much of the view that local government always comes as extra government rather than an alternative to central government, and is thus in no way preferable... nor is it a route to less g...
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WRT Paul Marks' 1st comment: the paradigm of how decentralization can be bad, remains in my opinion slavery in the Southern States. BTW i agree with Eric: that local government is at greater risk...
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It seems to me that Graeme Leach sets up a false dichotomy. Sure, the goal should be much smaller government, but how do you get from here to there? (Before answering, consider that the tendency ...
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'Yes, public schools are funded by taxes, but won’t that stop if few people are using them?' I'm afraid it won't. There will be less students being indoctrinated but the costs will not go down ...
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@Patrick Crozier > The state is not your friend. But some states are less unfriendly than others. The real benefit of a decentralized federalism is not that the state (or small version thereof) b...
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The state is not your friend. But some states are less unfriendly than others. And it seems to me to be far easier to persuade the less unfriendly states to become even less unfriendly than to pe...
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> Nicholas (Self-Sovereignty) Gray > Fraser, why not just set up an Internet home-school system? Running in competition with public schools? Such things exist in abundance in the United States. F...
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OK, we'll rephrase pete's comment. Decentralisation can't really happen in the modern state.
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large new bureaucracies at local level without any corresponding reductions at national levelBut that is not decentralization. Decentralization means that local...
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