[Kenny Bunk]

... First, the city appropriates money from the productive to buy the land, or, even better, simply uses its coercive monopoly to annex the land. Second, the city steals more money to build the trail system, despite the fact a small minority of the city's population will ever use it. Next, more pilfered tax dollars must be spent to maintain the trails. Finally, to use the trails is now a criminal offense.

Gubmint in a nutshell.

[Protagoras]

Gubmint in a nutshell.

If more people just understood the nature of force being used by the government to "do" things, we would have less of it.

Just ask people the following question and watch your social circle shrink. "What is the proper role of government in a free society?"