RE: What do you think should be the role of government? What values guides your choice?
June 27, 2015 at 3:40 am
In my mind, the first role of government is to not be bought. Government's other rightful roles: securing the borders; enforcing domestic laws; ensuring equality of opportunity; providing a temporary safety net so that the unfortunate have a fallback position.
Jefferson's "That government is best which governs least" is my guiding principle. My abandoning pure libertarianism arose from my recognition that in moderns times, "governing least" was going to be a hell of a lot larger than in 1791. A political philosophy which cannot change is one doomed to failure.
Jefferson's "That government is best which governs least" is my guiding principle. My abandoning pure libertarianism arose from my recognition that in moderns times, "governing least" was going to be a hell of a lot larger than in 1791. A political philosophy which cannot change is one doomed to failure.
