(February 1, 2018 at 5:26 pm)Tizheruk Wrote:(February 1, 2018 at 5:25 pm)shadow Wrote: So do you entirely disagree with things like the free market and personal liberties? That's why I like libertarianism - I basically want the government interfering with my life as little as possible. There are definitely times for government intervention (for example, creating the institutional arrangements to structure a proper free market), but governments are so corrupt and inefficient in general that I'd rather let corporations do many functions. Privatization typically has the effect of lowering costs when done right. It's why I like markets.Free market capitalism can be as inefficient and corrupt as government . And if government is inefficient and corrupt then it needs to be fixed not thrown away and handed over to a system that can easily be just as flawed but render even more powerless against and has moral interest in your wellbeing.
Yeah, but how do you fix government? The only thing that really impacts governments in NA seems to be cash, and in order to have a government-impacting amount of cash one must be a corportation. It's paradoxical. At least if we keep our cash as individuals, we can then spend it on the actual goods and services we value instead of it disappearing into a void of subsidizing whatever corporations got the incumbent government elected.
Corruption aside, I don't like having to pay for things that I don't value. I'd rather spend my own money buying the things I want and need than pooling all the resources of society and getting random stuff back. For example, apparently here in Denmark I'm supposed to pay a $300 charge for living here 6 months, to fund the Danish entertainment industry so they can make government subsidized TV programs. In danish - whoopdeedoo, I don't even speak Danish. I'd rather not spend my money on that because I don't value it - with smaller government, I wouldn't have to.
Additionally, a more classic argument, when I work hard I want credit for the work. I have no qualms with the government taking a cut to structure society, but many socialist systems disincentivize people from working because it puts them into a higher tax bracket or whatnot. It's silly.
Oh, and one more thing, that's actually really important. The people who pay taxes are very much the middle class - very wealthy people have the resources to avoid taxes almost altogether, whereas most regular people aren't that sophisticated. You tax more, it isn't the super-rich that are paying for it.
So those are a few of the reasons I like small government.
