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The government cannot and should not do do what it is not legally entrusted to do by the Constitution.I do not wish to take advantage of anyone, I prefer to work with my family to provide for our needs and wants.
I do not require the government to take from others because I am unwilling to do for myself.
I see the government as a source of equal protection under the law, not the source of equal stuff as everyone else has.
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
John Adams
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You believe falsely that government can only do what an individual can morally and ethically do. Since an individual cannot wage war or tax his neighbor, then neither can government by your political philosophy. Suffice it to say, you are wrong.
Virtuous people would not ask the government to do things that would be illegal for a person to do.
That the government does things, does not mean the people are virtuous or the government is right.