Are you talking to your local officials?
Do your local officials know what the
purpose of government is? Do they judge their actions on how they do
what government is supposed to do? Do they know how to find private
solutions for things government isn't supposed to do? How well do they
connect and communicate with your community?
The purpose of government, as stated in the Declaration of
Independence, is to secure Individual Rights. Governments,
those public functionaries who make up government, are not to be doing
anything more than that. And they are certainly not supposed to be
doing less than that. A government that attacks Individual Rights is
the very thing government is supposed to protect us from. And you are
paying to have your rights violated.
There are certainly things government should do. No one has a right
to violate the rights of others. If all roads were private, you could
be prevented from accessing your property or from going to the grocery
store. If your neighbor could do anything they wanted on
their property, they might dig a hole that could cause your structure
to collapse. Or they could cause smells or toxic fumes that could
prevent you from using your property.
It is up to every individual to keep government to its limited
role, and to have continual discussions with their public
functionaries about that role as situations come up or things
change.
It is not the job of government to entice employers or tourists to
the area. It is not the job of government to provide education nor to
pay for libraries. It is the job of the community, community leaders,
private individuals, and private organizations to do these things and
to fund them. When we allow government to do these things, we give
public functionaries the right to take money by force from individuals
and businesses to pay for these things. We also allow politics and
agendas to control these things.
We must keep government limited and we must step up in our
communities to do the things that government should not be doing.
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