By Jack Lee
It’s been a fundamental belief of mine for many years that in order to have an optimal government (of the people and for the people) we need to adhere to a very simply formula and it goes something like this:
Fewer taxes lead to a smaller government and that equals more freedom. In other words, less equals more!
Thats basically the whole thing. It’s not very complicated is it?
For me, it’s a matter of restraining government from it’s addiction to spend us into bankruptcy and then hold them back from passing all sorts of laws to cover everything from A to Z. Obviously, throwing vast sums of money at projects is wasteful if it’s not spent wisely (look at public education in Ca). We just can’t cover everything with a law, nor should we. Too often we punish the many for the bad acts of the few, i.e. assault weapons law and the infringement on the 2nd Ammendment. Too many laws is a sign of a society in collapse.
So, government ought to focus on what is it’s prime responsibility, as set forth in the U.S. Constitution, and to a lesser emphasis in our State Constitution and let the free market, innovation, entrepenuers, creativity and democracy flourish, as they were intended.
If you want to reduce this to an even simpler format (or floormat as my former boss used to say), it means government should only do what the people can’t do for themselves. And there’s not too much the private sector can’t do better and for less money than government.
As a conservative, I respect the rights of the individual to live as free they see fit. It’s only when their freedoms interferes with my freedoms or yours, do I set a boundary.
Thats pretty much my whole philosophy on freedom and good government.
What do you think?