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    "title": "The Big-Spending, High-Taxing, Lousy-Services Paradigm",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>James Madison would have to revise--or possibly burn--Federalist No. 10 if he were forced to account for the new phenomenon of the government itself becoming the faction decisively shaping its own policy and conduct. (See \u00e2\u0080\u009cMadison\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Nightmare\u00e2\u0080\u009d in City Journal\u00e2\u0080\u0099s 2009 special issue, \u00e2\u0080\u009cNew York\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Tomorrow.\u00e2\u0080\u009d) This faction dominates because it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s playing a much longer game than the politicians who come and go, not to mention the citizens who rarely read the enormous owner\u00e2\u0080\u0099s manual for the Rube Goldberg machine they feed with their dollars. They rarely stay outraged long enough to make a difference.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_4_california.html\">The Big-Spending, High-Taxing, Lousy-Services Paradigm by William Voegeli, City Journal Autumn 2009</a></em>.</p>\n"
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