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The sheriff of St. Joseph county, Indiana, has resigned over some silly legal dispute about letting a whorehouse continue in operation and asking the madam for a political contribution. If the government can’t dispense favors of this sort, what on earth good is the government? Can’t we buy thousands of tons of dried milk and butter to store in a cave, to help milk producers? Can’t we exempt labor unions from taxes? Bail out Lockheed and Chrysler? Repair New York subways and San Francisco cable cars? Tax the productive to support the retired? Who’s going to support the millions of wonderfully productive bureaucrats if we can’t spread it around? Is anybody out there listening?

As of August 5, 1981, the number of pages in the Federal Register for the year had reached 39,982. On August 5, 1980, the count was 52,176. Small potatoes you say? But when was the last time anyone could point to a 23 per cent reduction in government-produced anything?

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The sheriff of St. Joseph county, Indiana, has resigned over some silly legal dispute about letting a whorehouse continue in operation and asking the madam for a political contribution. If the government can’t dispense favors of this sort, what on earth good is the government? Can’t we buy thousands of tons of dried milk and butter to store in a cave, to help milk producers? Can’t we exempt labor unions from taxes? Bail out Lockheed and Chrysler? Repair New York subways and San Francisco cable cars? Tax the productive to support the retired? Who’s going to support the millions of wonderfully productive bureaucrats if we can’t spread it around? Is anybody out there listening?

As of August 5, 1981, the number of pages in the Federal Register for the year had reached 39,982. On August 5, 1980, the count was 52,176. Small potatoes you say? But when was the last time anyone could point to a 23 per cent reduction in government-produced anything?