Re: Weaving the Strands: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 2.0
Yes, I'm saying pretty much the same thing.
Yes, there is "too much" federal government under either party. It's basically an internecine battle over who can hand out which government goodies to which constituencies. "Cronyism" is so deeply embedded on both sides of the aisle, it is like an infection or a cancer that is very difficult to eradicate. No matter which party is in charge of the federal fisc, the federal government is spending too much money relative to the states and to private individuals, either of which who could use it more responsibly and with greater accountability.
That's pretty much a "straw person" argument at the level of the federal government. The Tenth Amendment reserves that decision to the states. There is a broad enough consensus these days that pretty much every reasonable person accepts a compromise that both recognizes a woman's right to choose before the fetus would be viable on its own, and also acknowledges that killing an infant that could live unassisted on its own, merely because it is still in the womb, is tantamount to murder.
I have no quarrel with traditional liberalism, with its emphasis on individual liberty, freedom of conscience, and (mostly) free markets. A classic liberalism like Martin Luther King Jr., Thomas Jefferson, Milton Friedman, or even Bill Clinton from 1994 through 1998, is very appealing to me.
My quarrel is solely with the progressives, who are becoming more open in their desire for totalitarian control over most aspects of everyone's life. At least Thomas Hobbes provided a cogent, logical rational argument in favor of a totalitarian government, whether you agree with it or not. It makes sense and is coherent.
Progressives pretend that people in power won't use that power to their own personal advantage, and that kind of naivete is dangerous and destructive.
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My quarrel is solely with the progressives, who are becoming more open in their desire for totalitarian control over most aspects of everyone's life. At least Thomas Hobbes provided a cogent, logical rational argument in favor of a totalitarian government, whether you agree with it or not. It makes sense and is coherent.
Progressives pretend that people in power won't use that power to their own personal advantage, and that kind of naivete is dangerous and destructive.
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