bripat9643
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So even as we breathe and laugh, the government is probably helping many people that indeed have brain damage, and others also see that government help, and maybe that is why government continues to grow?Another analogy might be, government is like our kids, they grow from useless except as objects of love to valuable needed assets and given more and more chores by the family.but government is merely a function of the electorate. If the electorate were inclined in a libertarian direction politicians would line up in the 1000's to be elected, famous, and to collect the $200k salary.
Thinking of govt as an independent being is done only because we don't want to blame the electorate for being responsible and stupid. Certainly one person becoming an anarcho capitalist does not change the govt one tiny bit and the likelihood of millions doing it seems unlikely and absurd. So, only if and when the electorate as a whole starts to move slowly to the right will the govt instantly follow.
The electorate have been moving to the left since the Constitution was ratified and the government has followed.
That's the nature of government. It continues to grow and it brainwashes people to believe it's as natural and necessary as the air you breath. Cancer also continues to grow from the day it first appears.
That's an analogy someone with brain damage might find persuasive. The rest of us have seen how government operates, so we only laugh at it.
For every person the government helps, it harms 5 others. It taxes them, regulates them out of business, licenses them out of business and expropriates their property. Furthermore, government is a vast Hoover for wealth. government has sucked up a big chunk of the capital in this country for decades and thereby vastly reduced the wealth of the country. If it wasn't for government, Americans would all be at least 3 times wealthier than they are. Charity for hard luck cases would be small change for most people. Government has harmed every person in America to the tune of millions of dollars.