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I think what we need is the personal liberty equivalent of one of those legislated "pay as you go" rules, familiar from debates over fiscal policy, where any tax cut must be offset by an equivalent spending cut (and any spending increase by a tax increase). Thus, any new law that proposed to add to the state's control over citizens' lives would have to be offset by the deletion of an old and similarly meddlesome law; every subtraction in freedom would be balanced by an addition (though the opposite would not apply).