Do you want to pay taxes for someone to use contraceptives?

The private sector can run on it's own. I expect government to run on donations or close it's doors. Because that is what is supposed to happen, as stated in our Declaration of Independence:

"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

The 2nd amendment was created for this reason. But gun control has restricted the 2nd amendment to those law-abiding citizen pawn/slaves who are least likely to use them to resist government fascism, and anyone who might be a threat to Uncle Sam has been classified as domestic terrorists, which the government is at war with. Now we have no effective means of keeping government in check- not even the election process- and that is why it has run out of control.

The only way to rein government in and put it back on a leash is to take away it's powers of taxation and borrowing. Government should run strictly on the donations of it's citizens. We should get into the habit of donating to government when we approve of it, but when we don't like what the government is doing, we should have the right not to pay for it. And therein lies the balance of power between us and the legislators who write the laws that effect us.

Yea, you have a point. Why, those who live in the hills of Appalachia and in the swamps of Mississippi and Louisiana, and out there on the prairies of South Dakota and Oklahoma, they are so dammed prosperous as to be the envy of the nation. Yessir, they are the "free ones". They can hunt the coons and alligators, make their own liquor, shoot squirrels all year round, and do all sorts of things that urban dwellers in a more civilized society can't do. Good that you remind us of what it means to be "free".

By the way, I take not that you live in perhaps the most tightly controlled environment in all the United States and I wonder what you really know about "free" people? You can't plant a rose bush without permission of the City of Monterrey, and the Coastal Commission controls your every "emission", some quite personal. Don't give me that "free men" crap.

I have more freedoms than I can find use for, as do all who are with sound minds and lacking criminal records. I can travel to any point on the planet,
buy and sell anything I wish that is not harmful in some way, invest, own,
say, read, write and do whatever strikes my mood, eat what I want, and exercise a free vote for any candidate in my political district. If you know of any other place on earth with such freedoms, tell us here and now of the place that we might all want to go there.

I suspect you are just one more ungrateful and unthoughtful person who spins yarns of delusions and ideologies that have no foundations. Or, your are feeling restrained by the place in which you live. Maybe move on down to Big Sur and find some "freedoms"?