Yes, but there are many ways to establish order.
Who says the current order or new world order is the best way to protect the interests of man, in general?
I say only honkeys and their sycophants like the existing world order.
No, we as a society did not deem this. The Federal government assumed these responsibilities from REAL people to extend its authority over us. It could just have easily allowed a marketplace for all these services and simply regulated it.
Instead, the Federal government chose to build a massive bureaucracy.
Things like police, education, roads, schools, EMT have all been shown to be poorly delivered by the government, at least to non-whites.
In fact, non-whites are afraid to use the so-called "common duties" government provides because their quality is so inferior (sort of like any socialist state, Russia, Cuba, China, ...) to private alternatives.
Hence, you have private "police" forces, private schools/universities, private roads, and private hospitals.
And, remedy in the courts would be more responsive if the government didn't make us subjects (like we are serfs or inferiors to some crown regent) but rather sovereigns.
Of course, business wouldn't do them free and neither does the government. Our standard of living is high, not because of the government. Rather, in spite of the government, we HAD a high standard of living.
Government didn't create the light bulb, car, computer, AC/DC, electronics, radio, the telephone, toilet paper, indoor plumbing, or anything it uses.
You have it backward.
The Federal government is huge BECAUSE of the country's wealth. The country's wealth IS NOT a result of government.
The government brings us wars, recession, spending, debt, inflation, and for non-whites, institutional racism.
The government doesn't just magically create wealth to provide these services. It takes the wealth from REAL people and inefficiently spends it on other REAL people.
Are you saying food, workplace, drugs oversight couldn't be done better, more efficiently, and more responsively in the marketplace?
When a private business does bad, it fails or you take it to court.
When the government does bad, you're screwed. It won't fail and you can't take it to court.
How did you jump to this conclusion?
Faulty premise, if you are saying a high standard of living is dependent on high taxes.
Yes, business will build costly infrastructure if there is reasonable potential for profit. (You need to do some factory tours if you think private business doesn't build infrastructure).
Yes, they will pay to train (I hate the word educate) the workforce and pay them competitive wages in the marketplace.
Are you some kind of communist?
I haven't heard this, but it shows the Federal government has doomed our future to a drastically reduced standard of living.
Are these the same people who allowed slavery in THEIR constitution?
Some argue the robber barons created the income tax to consolidate their power further.
Isn't Microsoft a monopoly. In fact, isn't the Federal Reserve Bank of New York a monopoly on the Federal Reserve Note.
The oil trust still has a monopoly on energy production in this country and write the energy policy to boot.
In fact, there is a drug trust, media trust, telecommunications trust, food trust, retail trust...
It's like it's 1900 all over again.
It was all an illusion supported by the Federal government and created by the Federal Reserve.
World trade never reached the levels it did of 1913 during the Roaring Twenties.
Why?
Because the governments (US, Britain, Germany, France, Russia, Ottoman Empire) did such a great job destroying so much wealth and trade in World War I through war.
It took decades to recover, despite the so-called appearance of the Roaring Twenties.
Our standard of living has been dropping since the 1960s. It accelerated during the 1970s. Reagan, to provide an appearance of prosperity, decided to live "ghetto rich" (excuse the vernacular).
He borrowed like crazy to give the illusion that prosperity was here and wealth was being created. Unfortunately, Americans thought it was REAL wealth and believed you could borrow/spend to prosperity.
Dumb.
I don't get this fair share thing. Income tax is not fair. There is no share of anything.
Someone gains and another loses. That is the way government operates.
Personally, a large standing army is a crime against the taxpayer.
I do believe the Republicans lost their mind believing you can have a big military AND low taxes AND small government.
Then again, Obama and the current Congress seems to be following suit, so maybe it's just Washington DC today.
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