[Rurudyne]

Letting people with the power to levy taxes have the ability to decide what are the scope of their power and responsibility by means at their disposal is ALWAYS a bad idea and trends towards too much government.

A government that is free to grow its own sphere of influence will result in a people who are no longer free. A people who are free NEEDS government to be bound by heavy chains and restraints that it cannot escape, even if, or especially if, it claims it just want freedom in order to help people out who are in dire need (that’s just a transient excuse, the power that results never goes away).

It happens through proverbial accumulated paper cuts, through regulatory capture that is never regulatory release, through tax cuts that are always temporary but tax increases that are basically forever.

Big government is how you reduce your posterity to mere subjects.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

Great points. Imaganing life without a big government is a much different thing in the middle of a big city as opposed to a rural area.

[ctdonath2]

“Too often we carry out national political debates as extensions of our local experience. People who live in cities often expect the government to regulate everything that moves and distrust those who advocate any other solutions. Those who live outside the cities typically see a government that already is doing too much and are equally distrustful of other views. We can never resolve these differences at the national level.”

This.

Someone who lives near self-sufficiently doesn’t need, nay resents, micro-managing from faraway strangers. Ex.: how long you can park on the side of a road is a non-issue.

Someone who lives like a packed sardine, nearly bumping shoulders every few seconds, needs micro-managing of culture just to reduce conflict and not get bogged down in negotiating minutiae near constantly. Ex.: how long you can park on the side of a road is a big issue. (I think broadly libertarian interpretation of the Constitution still is best in such cases, but certainly understand why urban folk _expect_ and _tolerate_ pervasive legislation.)

Hence: we are the United _States_. What may work for the majority of CA may be anathema to the whole of WY; let them work out local issues locally.

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[AlaskaErik]

To me living in NYC would be a soul crushing hell on earth nightmare.

[TexasTransplant]

New York is Tribal ... too many Chiefs and Witch Doctors