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"Small government" means "government that doesn't cause any inconvenience for corporations." Corporations are the only citizens that matter.

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When I was in high school I wanted to secede my bedroom so that it would not be subject to overreach from the rest of the house's government.

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Or Bruce Banner?

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Silly... the small government concept isn't for the benefit of the citizens. It is for the benefit of the corporations.

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You have to love this guy's opinion:

On the lack of even a single attorney in the whole county: "Well, goodness," says Billy Hopper, Loving County's chief deputy sheriff, "if you've got to have rattlesnakes or lawyers, which one would you [rather] have?"

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The Free State of Austin has petitioned for admittance to the Union, sending as a token of its good faith a large duffel bag labeled "the problem."

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Wow, Im glad you got the hell 'o out of Texas. If you think Texas is trashy then youve obviously never been nor lived in the bronx NY.

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Personally I believe that anyone who owns their own land or property also ought to have the mineral rights that go along with it. Quit all the nonsense of separating land and mineral rights. Once you own land its all yours.

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Its like me selling you my phone but since Im the previous owner of the phone I can pick and choose which cell phone service provider you'll be using. I won't have to worry about the costs because your the one that will be paying for that as well.

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And for the trees on one's land, the trees belong to the land owner as well because its growing out of the land. However, I don't think that land owners should be entrapping wild life on their property. Wild life don't grow out of the ground.

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The hypocrisy is strong in this one

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Shrink it down till it can be optionally drowned in the bathtub, should a Corporation-American wish to. Optionally, see? That doesn't mean they WILL, you know!

They might extract some other corporate unilateral rights, with the threat of drowning, first. WIN-WIN, KOCHSTYLE

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"ALL OF THEM, K. D. "

Long live The Meme!

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As a native of Austin, and someone who was involved in the extinguishment of your new mansion owned by the people of Texas that almost burned to the ground 6 years ago because another wife of a Republican governor's wife thought more expensive carpet outweighed fire sprinklers - AND - responded to the chemical plant in West, Texas, that resulted in 14 firefighters, medics and civlian deaths I say three things to Greg "Strangelove" Abbott:

1) I like not having to pickup those plastic bags that float onto the grounds of Casa De Fartknocker, 2) Developers in Austin hate our Tree Ordinance. We local taxpayers like our Tree Ordinance, and 3) Go Fuck Yourself. 41% of all patents issued in Texas in CY 2012-2014 were from persons and companies in Austin. More venture capital money was spent on successful start ups in Austin than all the other major cities combined in the past 2 years.

Your just another shit stain out of town politician who has a temporary residence at 1100 Congress Ave. you sycophantic pin dick. Please enjoy the new fire sprinkler system.

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hit it and quit it, it's the only way

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The parts of it I saw look like they already did.

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