Comment Re:At least it's on our side! (Score 0) 123
It neglects to consider that the government gives as well as takes.
Pull that bus over right now.
Government gives *nothing*.
All government is, is force. It has no wealth of it's own. Anything it "gives" in entitlements/benefits/bread & circuses/etc comes from taking wealth, under threat of lethal force and imprisonment, from those who worked to produce it and transfer it to someone else or to some other group.
TANSTAAFL
There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
Even more so with layer upon layer of government red-tape, incompetence, ideological social-engineering foolishness, and bureaucracy.
All that government has and all the powers it exercises are voluntarily granted to government temporarily, with the sworn & solemn agreement that the government will not exceed the bounds of that which is loaned to them, in exchange for the privilege of exercising those agreed-upon powers using the agreed-upon wealth exclusively for the agreed-upon purposes.
Furthermore, the citizens have a right and a duty to alter or abolish a government that violates that trust.
Government is a necessary evil. The less the better.
A powerful central government, necessary to support and administer/enforce a centrally run government entitlement infrastructure, even if run benevolently *now*, only requires a change of politicians/party for that same power to be used for corruption, oppression, and tyranny.
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