>What is next? Having more money in your bank than the police believe you should have?
The police? Shit, this is exactly what the youth are demanding now. Wealth confiscation is all the rage with Gen Z and younger millenials.
The police? Shit, this is exactly what the youth are demanding now. Wealth confiscation is all the rage with Gen Z and younger millenials.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess you're not for smaller government though, right?
I am happy with the concept of 'small government', but typically folks who use it dont mean what I think it should mean.
They are happy to spend a lot of my tax money on the prosecutor that will charge me for jaywalking, but want to cut spending on the public defence attorney that will defend me from the very same 'small government' they advocate.
They tend to invoke 'small government should not interfere' when I ask whether a companies should be able to screw me over, but they want 'full force of the law' when I do anything they dislike.
Because otherwise I can answer the same way you did and say that my experience is the people who complain the most about us burdening future generations with debt are the same ones demanding expensive far-reaching government programs for everything under the sun.
Originally I expressed no opinion about national debt, I merely point out hypocracy of making demands of future generation, but acting angry and righteous when those generations make requests of us.
also I spesifically stated that I do not buy into ideology typically attached to 'small government'.
also the premise that the only way to deal with national debt is to have smaller government is wrong, we could have higher taxes or print money
Lastly the idea that smaller government is more efficient or cheaper is wrong too - industries where the government is the only buyer, like prisons, tend to do terribly when they are given to the private sector - it creates insentive for corruption and fraud and is actually harder to manage as a market than it is for a government to run them directly. In every meteic, from recisevism to in prison murder rate, private prisons do worse.