That is simply untrue. You are not thinking.
The FDA keeps medicines and foods at least safer. Traffic lights and signs are also useful to keep others from running into me.
I attended four public universities. I think the FAA makes flying much safer. I do not need to be annoyed by government for it to be useful to me.
Here is the problem , I can't say that there is too much government presence and involvement , too much regulation and restriction , without having to qualify that I don't want there to be none.
Suppose Water is good , does this mean that there cannot be too much of it?
There has never been a bigger government than ours , we have never had more rules , and never so many of us locked up .
There has to be enough regulation , but no one is calling a halt when that is surpassed and even when the rule book gets hard to carry , they never eliminate the obsolete rules.
If we doubled the size of the government our lives would not become twice as good with twice as many rules and twice as much surveillance for twice the price.
I think if the government were reduced to about half what it is we would be happier with half the rules , half the tax and half the watchers , much closer to the right size.
Perhaps an across the board cut would be non optimal, but any other sort of cuts gets bogged down in discussion of disagreement on what is fair, thus never happens.
