A Libertarian’s view of the U.S. government

Subject: A Libertarian’s view of the U.S. government Thu Feb 14, 2019 10:01 pm

America’s federal, state and local governments constitute about 35 percent of the nation’s GDP. They are too big. A reduction to 10 percent of GDP would make the nation healthier, wealthier and happier, with the poor helped most.
When government offers a benefit, people arrange their affairs to obtain it. Businesses replace engineers with lawyers. The advantage to those who receive the benefit is great. The per-capita cost to taxpayers is small and hidden. The dynamics facilitate government growth.
When government is big, the rich gain wealth faster than the poor, because the rich induce the government to help them. The bigger the government, the greater the gap between rich and poor.
Here are the duties that our governments, including the courts, should perform: protect private property and individual liberty; adjudicate lawsuits and enforce contracts; keep people from directly hurting others by force or fraud (the police power); set and enforce immigration policies; defend the nation.
With government limited to the above, the poor would gain wealth faster than the rich, and little poverty would remain.

Government is force. When the force extends beyond government’s proper bounds, the actual, long-run results are opposite to the intended results. Policies intended to help the poor cause poverty instead.
The federal government’s economic policies have been especially damaging. It should stop trying to influence the economy and allow others to create money.

Government at all levels should educate no one.
Government’s accumulation of statistics stimulates its damaging intrusions. Let others gather statistics.
Society’s needs other than those satisfied by government’s proper duties should be fulfilled by private parties operating for profit or by associations of those who care. Competition among them minimizes costs. With government backed off, the more needs that arise, the more people would come forward to meet them.

https://www.concordmonitor.com/A-Libertarians-view-of-the-US-government-23449639

A Libertarian’s view of the U.S. government

A Libertarian’s view of the U.S. government

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