Zanchief wrote:Minrott wrote:And you don't believe they deserve to do that. I understand completely. Just don't blame them when they shrink their business by laying folks off to the point where they pay themselves $200,000 a year, so that they're not being stolen from quite as much anymore.
I don't understand where this theft business comes from. Are you an anarchist? Would you rather travel on gravel roads that aren't paved over, would you rather have no police force, no military, and no proper infrastructure for your cities?
Even you are reliant on your government, not because you need to be, because it's the natural evolution of a prospering society. If you are outright denying all the good that comes from the government then you are completely delusional, and your judgement isn't worth anything.
Do you really hope for a society without government at all?
No I'm not quite an anarchist. I believe in the necessity of a secure state, and roads and infrastructure are part of that, as well as something that induces commerce. Money for roads benefits all. Money for military benefits all. Money for diplomacy and embassies benefits all. But this is where I begin to draw the line, and the idea of theft begins. Bureaucracies with no oversight, Congress writing checks with no thought of the National Debt,
MY money bailing out PRIVATE FUCKING BUSINESSES that should have been culled like weak animals. That is theft. That is armed robbery. I pay under the threat of imprisonment or death.
Our system is so fucked, that the Fed takes money from the States, to give back to other States, in a grand scheme of redistribution. I'm against this practice. I want the Federal Government to take what they need for: Military defense, border security, diplomacy, the few regulatory agencies we need (DOJ, DOTreasury, DOE, etc) and stop with the taking as much money as they can to redistribute to congress' little pet projects. This is where nearly ALL of the corruption in the Federal Government comes from, this little game of scratch mine and I'll suck yours so my people re-elect me next year.
States can take care of themselves. States should take care of themselves. If that means gravel roads in Wyoming because the state is poor, so be it. If it means high taxes in California to pay for LA's 8 lane highway, so be it. That gives people a choice, they key to freedom, to live in whichever mix between taxation and government influence they desire. Business will naturally gravitate towards states with lower taxes. Urban sprawl will slow in area's where it's rampant.
The Bill of Rights is not there to tell you what my rights are. It's to limit what the Federal Government is supposed to do, and by my reckoning, and many others, they've over stepped their bounds.
Arlos, you always point to Medicare, and I admit, for a Federal program it works remarkably well. Another Federal program that works spectacularly as intentioned is Hospice. But I can also point to Social Security, and what an inept pyramid scheme that is.
