Taxation is not theft, you allow it to happen. You have options to avoid it.

too late.

So instead of paying taxes to a government that can use volume to make management cheaper, and use the funds for other public goods you pay it to an insurance company, unless you really though insurance costs would not skyrocket for the new services they provide, and in the end you get less value, but the insurance company makes more money.

That is funny, as it was mostly my republican friends that were upset about the shutdown as services they wanted to use were offline.

I am stupid because I dont believe that the employer paid for my medicare when it came directly out of my paycheck? Even if he wants to lay that claim, the same logic would dictate it was not the employer who paid for it but the customer of the business.

And do you enjoy living off a max of something like 30% of your income from when you are employed in some states? UI, which is an insurance program has a limited time length. The way you can extend it is in a time of high unemployment or by going to school.

The parts trying to fix the problem are those adding regulations to ensure they dont happen, the ones trying to prevent it are the ones trying to remove regulations so it can happen again. Which do you think is big government and which do you think is small government?

I stooped as soon as that site claimed that the taxes I paid are not coming from me, but from the business owner. As in medicare that is taken directly from my pay.

Most of what you lay claim on being bad big government is actually bad small government.. Why do we have the worst broadband penetration, because the government is not making the companies do anything, any thing at all, not even compete. As for everything else that is state level issues, which we paid for with federal monies. they way to fix them is not with less regulation, as the lack of regulation is what allowed them to happen in the first place.

because they would still want what they still want. They would replace the losses in social services with more military, because no one wants to be seen as anti military.. Playing politics with a government shut down is not the same as actually wanting to have real reductions in government.

If your theory was correct wouldnt Mass be experiencing a mass exodus of bushiness, and not the growth of GDP it is seeing??

You and I have fairly different ideas of sane. Supporting people who think rape is OK, as God intended it is not sane in social issues, at least in my opinion.

Do you really think any of the sides actually want that? Even the small government party does not mind intruding if it fits their beliefs.

Actually it peaked in the 40s, direct rate, not % of GDP:

http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/revenue_history

Also % compared to GDP is a relativly useless stat because we give away a lot of the things we produce for free, without counting them as part of the GDP, artificially raising the percentage. If we were to take into account all the food and other items we give away free the GDP would be much higher and the percentage therefore much lower.

It is not stolen, without that money it would be very much harder for you to do your labor. What with no roads,reliable electric grid, phone service.