HappySqurriel on 01 July 2010
Personally, I find the argument that cutting back on government services is necessarily going to have a negative impact on individuals to be bizarre. Most governments are horribly inefficient organizations that are plagued with debt, have significant corruption, are subject to widespread fraud, and spend a large portion of their money in areas they shouldn’t be involved in. If the government was reduced to its core functions and focused on doing those efficiently while reducing corruption and fraud (and staying out of debt) you could probably run the government on 5% to 10% of GDP while the typical citizen didn’t notice any reduction of services.
