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Re:Secret Recordings Reveal How Exxon Lobbyists Manipulate P... by papito on Thursday July 01, 2021 @10:16AM (#27699262)
Small government logged into chat. Wouldn't smaller government make their efforts more effective as the dollar per person corruption would be higher?

And then we go, "oh gee, we don't have enough people to audit white collar crimes because the Small Government crusaders gutted the IRA, for some reason".

It's not about small government, it's about an ineffective, castrated government, so companies like Exxon can steamroll it and have their own way to profit.

Exxon would love nothing more than this... small government.

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Re:Secret Recordings Reveal How Exxon Lobbyists Manipulate P... by nexus_dave on Thursday July 01, 2021 @11:57AM (#27700509)
Not if there is nothing to steamroll. Moreover, the bigger the government the less the smaller players can compete.
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Re:Secret Recordings Reveal How Exxon Lobbyists Manipulate P... by jokethrowaway on Thursday July 01, 2021 @10:26AM (#27699353)
It's not about having a smaller government, it's about having no government at all and third parties competing law enforcements and third parties competing private courts.
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Re:Secret Recordings Reveal How Exxon Lobbyists Manipulate P... by ativzzz on Thursday July 01, 2021 @11:41AM (#27700290)
If there's no government at all, then the oil companies buy their own army and become the government.
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Re:Secret Recordings Reveal How Exxon Lobbyists Manipulate P... by nexus_dave on Thursday July 01, 2021 @11:56AM (#27700492)
I am not proposing anarchism, only small government.
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