(05-26-2018, 11:00 PM)Byron LeftTown Wrote: Minimal government is the ideal.  If you have too much, people start believing government should do things for them or give things to them.  They start using government as a club against others.  Then it just devolves into a battle to see who holds the club.

Now there is, at least, a view that is internally consistent. I suppose that prosecuting rapists and murderers is one of the very "minimum" functions of government, right? I mean I already asked you this once you gave me a lecture about protecting my own family rather than answering my question.
Obviously this minimum amount of government would need a minimum amount of funding. Why would a tax on head of cattle be any worse than any other tax, assuming that the total of all taxes was minimal as you seem to want?

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(05-26-2018, 10:37 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(05-26-2018, 10:31 PM)mikesez Wrote: "Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." Pope John Paul II

"I seek to conserve the principle at the core of the American project: freedom. It is the freedom to live a virtuous and meaningful life supported by family, community, faith, and the dignity of work." -Marco Rubio

A pope and a politician???

No wonder you're so confused.

Just as long as you recognize that I didn't make up my ideas out of thin air and that your disagreement is with people who are smarter and much more influential than both of us.

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