gvt, created our military, our police, our firemen, our roads and highways and train tracks....well, many of them, and our electric grid with huge subsidies, even building gas stations across our country was subsidized and our phone lines, our schools, our universities our libraries, the library of congress for goodness sake, our sewer systems, water resources !
you are completely viewing this through tunnel vision driveby, if you think our country's government contributed only 15% to your success....a tad self centered too, imho!
Total bullshit. Fire Departments were all volunteer in the beginning. Many still are volunteer operations, and many are private. The do the job a lot cheaper than those lazy overpaid oafs in the govenrment run fire departments. Railroads are almost entirely private. The government subsidized railroads all went bankrupt. The electric grid is privately built. What "subsidies" do you imagine it received? Gas stations were subsidized? Since when? Phone lines were privately built. Schools, universities and libraries were all privately funded long before government got into the act.
Government simply isn't needed for most of the things you imagine it's needed for. It just takes over services after private firms or volunteer operations have been providing them for decades and the muscles them out of the way.
Government is REQUIRED to do the unprofitable things in life like education. Government is REQUIRED to build common infrastructure, ass-u-me-ing everyone would rather drop a few bucks into a fund for roads with their taxes instead of stopping at the edge of every private land owners property to pay a fucking toll.
Government has a role.
The problem is not government. The problem is back stage private spending on political advertising, favoritism purchased with campaign money and outright corruption.
We have GOT to start spending a little more on education!!
