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Originally Posted by verticalslope
The Confederate flag represents my cultural heritage..
Um, government is a negative thing.. If you can find so much dirt on everyone, why let government grow so much? If everyone is corrupt and you're trying to decide amongst the corrupt who the least corrupt one is--don't it ring the bell that government is the problem!?!?
Deregulation is key to making things more safe and less intrusive on our freedoms. Obviously, if marijuana was legalized, the money would go away from the organized crime, safer weed...etc. It is not the government's job to regulate morality or what people do in their personal lives. The Constituition does not allow this... NO ONE SHOULD HAVE THE ABILITY TO COMMAND PEOPLE'S PERSONAL LIFE EXCEPT THE PERSON...
A pure free market works.. Less government--- the more freedom you have.
I will take anyone on this forum to school on economics. Period.
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Not to get too off-topic, but saying "Government is a negative thing" carries implications it doesn't seem you've considered.
If we didn't have government, what incentive would there be for people to not steal, or shoot someone to get what they have?
If we didn't have government, who would ensure subgroups of our populace (let's say corporations) didn't take advantage of consumers [more than they already do]?
Sans government, who's going to help keep business from forming monopolies and exploiting the population?
Without government, who's going to protect children who live in abusive homes?
I think saying "government is evil" is a very shortsighted and easy route out. We need government in some way, shape or form to protect us from each other. Sure, individually there may be a lot of good people, but there are always bad apples, and unless we have some sort of organized way of enforcing rules "for the good of everyone," especially with our world in the state it's in, we'd be SOL.
My ending disclaimer, though, is that I'm not advocating the type of government we presently have, and I do agree that government should be "By the people, for the people." So change is undoubtedly needed. I just think tossing government completely would pretty much guarantee the population's failure.