Whenever I read these threads, i have to wonder if many people actually understand what people mean when they want the feds to take their hands off money.
Nobody wants the government to take money off THEIR hands.
We want the government to take money off OTHER PEOPLE'S hands, so that WE don't have to give OUR MONEY to the government.
I'd have thought that rather obvious, by now.
That's much of how the class war plays out, actually....in the form of tax policies which reward some and punish others.
The United States was set up with a body for each state to handle roads, the electrical grid and other infrastructure problems, the state governments. they were intended to place taxes and provide servivces, NOT the feds.
Partially true.
The government was set up to do some stuff, and the government was set up such that it could do stuff NOT SPECIFICALLY mentioned in the constitution, too.
The elasticity of the constitution is a bdouble edged swords, of course.
Had it not been so elastic, I doubt the USA would exist, but surely we ALL think that some of the SUpreme Cout's rulings have been insane.
My favorite examples of insanity, is the SC deciding that MONEY = FREE SPEECH, and the ruling that CORPORATIONS HAVE RIGHTS.
Other people have other complaints about this elesticity in the laws of the land, and their complaints might be reasonable, too.
Simply stated, the federal government makes things worse when it steps in, because it brings with it all the corruption and neoptism and old boyism that two centuries have grafted to it.
And the same original sin problems are not evident to you in STATE and LOCAL GOVERNMENTS?
If not, why not? Are you not paying attention to your local governments excesses?
It's not about living in a lawless state like in Africa as someone mentioned, it's about a central government having TOO much authority and TOO LITTLE accountabilty.
Yes, that's true. When some of us are accused of being socialists who want the government to control everything, we are apt to paint those who try to pass that outright lie as the polar opposite.
The feds prove, no matter what party, they will spend, spend, and spend some more, come hell or high water.
Does seem to be the trend, doesn't it? It's especially vexing since they seem to spend so foolishly in so many cases.
So please stop trying to tell me the gov gave me this or that, it didn't, I paid for it, as did everyone else, and 99 out of 100 things they do i don't approve of.
The existence of civil authority (read: governments of all sorts) gives us some conditions which make capitalism and a reasonably functional society possible.
I think even you must think that is a good thing, don't you?
Neither of us are anarchist or fascists, but we can surely disagree about what course of action we want our governments to take, anyway.
Such event is normally thought of as the POLITICAL PROCESS.