40% of all r&d and science is funded by the government.
The majority of infrastructure is funded by tax payers
Good luck running a first world country without investment....We wouldn't even be in the top 20 or 30. This is a insane position to take, just to come out completely against government.
We are becoming a third world country because of our astronomical debt and taking 40% of the GDP for the combined cost of government. You see what happens in places like Greece and Venezuela with big bloated debt ridden government. We are heading down that path. We are a poorer country now than we were when that asshole socialist Obama was elected. We have piss poor economic growth, greater division between the rich and poor, more poverty, more welfare, more taxes, more illegal aliens, less family income and a tremendous amount of additional debt.
The US spends more money on infrastructure than anybody else in the world and we also waste more than anybody else with stupid shit like Davis Bacon contracting rules and bridges to nowhere.
We spend more money on education than any other country in the world and has the least to show for it. Big bloated government has destroyed education in the US and additional wasted money won't fix it.
Nobody would disagree that we need some government. We need defense, courts, police and a few other necessary government services. Nobody has a problem with collective road building to be paid for out of an user fee like the fuel tax. After all there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Most people would support the idea of public education at the community level providing the money is spent wisely for the kid's real education and not welfare for the teacher's unions or some demented idea of social justice.
What is absolutely wrong is when the corrupt politician, elected by special interest groups take the money that is made by one person and gives it some filthy ass welfare queens that never earned anything. That is stealing and it is wrong.
The government needs to get out of the business of providing welfare, subsidies, entitlements, bailouts and subsidies. Those are the things that are wrong with government and is destroying this country. It is thievery and it is despicable.
Why do you support thievery? Are you an idiot or is it simply greed?