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[Nymeria]

VAMatt said:

Nymeria said:

I would increase government to cut the corruption out from big business.  For example, elections would be funded by tax payers, making them solely accountable to the voting public. No one would be allowed to contribute to campaigns or lawmakers for any reason, doing so would face massive fines and prison time.  This way politicians don't spend 20% of their time campaigning and fund raising, they don't pass bills that have low approval rating because it appeases donors and legislation is not written by lobbyists.

My issue is never the size of government, it is how it operates and the level of corruption.  I'll take a massive government that serves its people any day over a small one that allows abuses of the citizenry for self interest. 

The thing is, the bigger the government, the more incentive there is to get control of that government.  So, as government increases in size and/or scope, it becomes exponentially more difficult to keep out corrupting influences.  Therefore, the smaller the government, the better.  Even if a government is super corrupt, it matters very little if that government takes very little of your money and controls very little of your life.  

History doesn't show us that. When the government was much smaller large companies with people such as Rockefeller and Vanderbilt abused markets, workers, and people because there were no checks placed on them.  The government needs to be large enough to serve its people and fight those that would harm them.  Life is so much better today in part because of regulations that protect the environment and workers.

I'd be curious to see a country with a small government you see as a model the United States could follow.