Why not let the government do it?

Fiscal Conservatism 108

I’m sure many people implicitly trust the government. But our founding fathers did not, and neither do I.

Like corporations, the government is made up of people. Most people are not evil. They don’t personally seek anyone’s harm.

But governments have all sorts of justifications for abuse of power and it is very hard to punish those responsible, which might curb some of the abuses. So we have an IRS which is targeting conservative and religious groups for harassment as just one example.

Corporations produce goods or services which are voluntary to buy. If you don’t like a corporation for some reason, don’t buy their product. But governments do things that compel our participation through taxation....

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