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There was a time when we did not have a federal [[government]].  For over ten years after the [[Declaration of Independence]], we even lacked a [[President of the United States of America|President]].  Many did not see any problem with that. Think about what we need [[government]] for, and what we could do better without [[government]] involvement.  Take the [[Post Office]], for example, which was one of the first functions of federal [[government]].  We can mail a letter to anywhere in the [[United States]] and, for a mere 41 cents, it will be delivered within a few days.  [[Federal Express]] charges 30 times as much, though it will deliver it faster.  Yet the Postal Service delivers more mail in one day than [[Federal Express]] delivers in an entire year.  The [[government]] asserts a monopoly over ordinary mail delivery (expensive urgent delivery, like that provided by Federal Express, received an exemption from the Postal Service, 39 C.F.R. § 320.6).  If you set up a mail delivery service in your town, then the [[government]] would force you to stop.  Do you agree with that policy?  Would we be better off with a less powerful federal [[government]]?  Would it be wise to eliminate the federal [[government]]?

There was a time when we did not have a federal [[government]].  For over ten years after the [[Declaration of Independence]], we even lacked a [[President of the United States of America|President]].  Many did not see any problem with that. Think about what we need [[government]] for, and what we could do better without [[government]] involvement.  Take the [[Post Office]], for example, which was one of the first functions of federal [[government]].  We can mail a letter to anywhere in the [[United States]] and, for a mere 41 cents, it will be delivered within a few days.  [[Federal Express]] charges 30 times as much, though it will deliver it faster.  Yet the Postal Service delivers more mail in one day than [[Federal Express]] delivers in an entire year.  The [[government]] asserts a monopoly over ordinary mail delivery (expensive urgent delivery, like that provided by Federal Express, received an exemption from the Postal Service, 39 C.F.R. § 320.6).  If you set up a mail delivery service in your town, then the [[government]] would force you to stop.  Do you agree with that policy?  Would we be better off with a less powerful federal [[government]]?  Would it be wise to eliminate the federal [[government]]?

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