The government should be no larger than is required to meet its obligations under our founding documents. All of the other stuff we’ve managed to add on should be abolished. That is my definition of smaller government.
Say good-by to:
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Defense
Department of Education
Department of Energy
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of the Interior
Department of Justice
Department of Labor
Department of State
Department of Transportation
Department of the Treasury
Department of Veterans Affairs
Exactly!
You have to define legitimate government obligations.
The government should fear the citizen that revolts against overreach.
Many MSM personalities are saying that ‘citizens are afraid’ but the correct response is that citizens are angry about the mandates the government is preparing to enact.
We really are Keynesian, now!
There are a few of us arranging our finances to starve the beast.
“The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.”
(John Maynard Keynes)
“Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not
bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic
duty to increase one’s taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is
nothing sinister in
so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it,
rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay
more than the law demands.”
(US Appeals Court Justice the Honourable Learned Hand)