Government is Irrational.

[Koolay]

The government does have permission. It's called "voting".

So you are saying that a stranger can sign a contract on behalf of another stranger in regards to financial, educational, and moral decisions?.

That's not what permission is.

Now it does happen that not everyone will agree with the spending priorities of the government. This is like in the condo association I used to belong to where one continuously disgruntled member seemed to forever disagree with the majority on how money was spent. He stopped paying his maintenance and we took legal action. Sorry, you don't get to do that. If you don't like how the condo association spends its money, move or convince more people of your position.

If that guy doesn't purchase the condo, he doesen't get put in a cage. Nobody is forcing him to purchase/use the condo in the first place since it is a private enterprise. There are no punishments for not purchasing the condo. However if you disagree with governments products and services you get put in a cage.

Personally, I'd love for government to be run a-la-carte somehow. I don't want to pay the 2 trillion dollar war in Iraq and the botched war in Afghanistan. I don't want to pay for W Bush's trillion dollar giveaway to big pharma or all the money that got funneled into sweet no-bid contracts to Halliburton. I'd like to not have to pay for the largest incarceration per capita worldwide because of this asinine "War on Drugs". And the banks that crashed our economy should be the ones to pay for the mess, not the taxpayers. And I think we can cut our bloated military budget in half, now that the Cold War is over, and we'll still be spending more than the next four nations combined. And I don't want to subsidize the wealth of the top 1% in this country by putting their share of running the government on our future tab that you're so worried about.

Or better yet, stop the violent monopoly that has the power to do all of what you said. Nobody has the right to put someone in a cage because they own a plant. Nobody has the right to blow up innocents halfway across the world and call it 'defence'. 'But if we can make tweaks here and th'- no!

It would be great if we could impose a "Dumb Ass Tax" on everyone who voted for W Bush in 2004 to pay for the record deficits he created. By 2004, it was clear he'd lied us into a costly war in Iraq and those that still voted for him should pay for it. However, life doesn't work that way and government can't be a buffet table where we get to pick and choose what we individually want.

Honestly that's a pretty good idea. I think people would be a lot more careful if the governments projects funding came directly out of their pocket rather than out of deferred foetuses' pockets and twisted and warped in the monetary system. There is no real accountability for crimes in politics, let alone the value of money.

I'm not accusing you of being a member of the GOP but if you're worried about the debt, let's take a hard look at conservative pet projects and how costly they are.

Conservatives are just as villainous as Democrats, they come from the same cloth of aggression. They claim to be against extortion of money to fund people's desires, but when War is concerned- money is no object.

And if you don't like paying taxes, go live in the wild. Let me know how that works for you.

'If you don't like government, just move'

Way to spit on the graves of everyone that have been victims of government.

Would you say that to a jew in 1940s Germany? 'If you don't like the government just move.'

How about the aggressor move into the forest not to bother anyone and leave the peaceful and productive alone.