Heres the fun part. They never actually shrink the government. They just cut spending on social programs that improve people’s lives and put the money into the military and the police.
small government means less taxes and regulations, so small government for corporations. it’s still big government for the people though.
meanwhile they say the other side is for big government when that’s the side that’s against government in your bedroom, government in your doctor’s office, government up your genitals, government establishing and dictating religion, government asking papers at every turn, a god-king president being above the law, and on and on…
bullshit terms made by people who want to control you and give their buddies more money.
There are people who, disturbed by “big government” today and its tendency to curb the advantages they might gain if their competitiveness were allowed free flow, demand “less govern- ment.” Alas, there is no such thing as less government, merely changes in government. If the libertarians had their way, the distant bureaucracy would vanish and the local bully would be in charge. Personally, I prefer the distant bureaucracy, which may not find me, over the local bully, who certainly will. And all historical precedent shows a change to localism to be for the worse.
—Isaac Asimov, Nice Guys Finish First, collected in The Sun Shines Bright, 1981
As anyone who has lived in a Rocky Mountain town can say, Distant bullies are pretty bad too.
But that’s a sort of unique situation. Or it was until Reagan. See, the entire Rocky Mountain range is treated as a sort of internal colony.
Resources are extracted, but the people who own the companies doing the extraction all pretty much live on one of the coasts.
And then every store is also owned by someone who lives on one of the coasts.
This means that any real wealth produced in those states, quickly leaves those states.
A lot of towns in the area never really had a “down town” in the first place, and with the creation of Walmart and such, no one else gets a downtown either.
The answer of course is a bigger government. But it has to be free of corporate influence.
Which might just take a very big government. Like expanding the House and Supreme Court big.
Both are desperately needed.
Libertarians in a nutshell
Hey can you explain this? I was recently looking into libertarian they seem to want a smaller gov. Does it just not at all shake out like that?
Smaller government translates to more freedom for corporations to do what they want and less protection for middle and lower class. They’ll try to justify it by saying it’s best for everybody, but I think it ultimately just mirrors trickle down logic.
I’ve yet to see a small government conservative shrink the volume of government spending or the size of it’s workforce.
They mostly just replace teachers and safety inspectors and public sector engineers with cops and consultants and cronies.
What words start with earf?
“stop the earflaps” is a pretty common slogan.
some politicians even consider it a badge of honour to have theirs removed…
Small Gov keeps it spicy!
Whilst some money needs to be taken out of politics around lobbying and other stuff, small government is mostly an attack on that Government.
It’s anti-patriotism disguised as patriotism. Seeks to weaken the state, the nation, the people by depriving them of services and government owned revenue steams via privatization and theft of state assets by private industry.
small governments cannot independently solve global crises.
…why isn’t the comic finished tho?
