So you’re in favor of A smaller government?

As a lib, prog... I'm happy to defend my big government option. It's an easy choice. although if anything conservatives are the real "big government" proponents since they historically want big government to decide who we can marry, what we can smoke and what a woman does with her girlie parts. Not to mention blank checks to military contractors, more people in prison, farm subsidies and corporate welfare.

But here's why I chose big government.

If you were to be born randomly in the world and you had a choice between a place with a big government and relatively high taxes or a place with small government and low or no taxes you'd be wise to pick the former. If you pick the latter, have fun starving or dying of malaria in a sub-saharan African or central American banana republic because that's most likely where you'll end up. Our government such as it is gives everyone a much better chance to succeed and reach their potential. Enjoy life liberty, pursuit of happiness and so on. Like conservatives ironically say, "Freedom ain't free."

Everybody says they want "smaller government" but few people really know what that means. If, for example we made child prostitution legal, that would be less government. I don't think anyone here is pro-child porn. The truth is it's not about "big" or "small" If you want small government there are plenty of places you can go. it's about smarter and better government --a government that works for the people not just for a few people with the deepest pockets.. a society in which everyone has the best chance to succeed and safely follow their dreams.

First of all who's talking about a "loose interpretation of the constitution?" If anything liberals have a better understanding of the constitution --not the selectively read one conservatives have... where only the 2nd and 10th amendment matter and even those they (cough) ignore certain parts. I liken it to how Christians selectively read and "follow" the Bible.

Congress has the duty to tax and spend. It's in the enumerated powers. If you don't like it you can't say you're for the constitution. And if you make more income then you have benefited more from this society than someone who's made less -therefor you owe more back. It's called a progressive tax system --it's been around since ancient Greece and it works. Giving back creates more opportunities for the next people to come along and innovate and make more money. More people have a better life, can create more, buy more goods and services which trickles up and in the long run makes life better for the rich who had to pay a little more. I hope some day I have that "problem." I sure won't be whining about it like a little bitch.

When you have a more progressive tax system in encourages the wealthy to invest in more business creating more jobs. When you cut their taxes it encourages them to put more in their Swiss bank accounts so the money just sits there and piles up creating no economic activity. If you don't believe me check the job growth under Clinton vs Bush. It's pretty obvious one plan worked and the other didn't.

When was the last time you heard Obama or any Democratic politician promote any law to "take away your right to bear arms?" I think it may have gone too far though, the NRA won't be happy until any nut-job can buy a machine gun at 7-11 with a grenade launcher attachment. The 2nd Amendment says, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." You wanna tell me what bubba carrying an assault rifle into a movie theater or bar has to do with a "well regulated militia?" be my guest. To use the 2nd Amendment as a reason for no gun regulation is ridiculous. The words "Well Regulated" are right in the amendment! See what I mean about "selective reading?"

A large problem in government today is the increasing amount of government programs and agencies. This is where we get that national debt from. Most of these programs and agencies do nothing but eat your tax dollars up and you never get anything out of it. There are 457 federal agencies today. Many of these agencies do the same thing, if they even do anything at all. Under these 457 agencies there are even more agencies! Take for example the NIH or National Institutes of Health. Under this government agency there is 47 more agencies! Now if you take the 457 federal agencies and lets assume that each agency has 47 sub agencies like the NIH and you multiply those together you get 21, 479 agencies. On top of that there is even more agencies at the state level! Is this level of bureaucracy really needed? Should we really have to pay for these do-nothing agencies upon do-nothing agencies? Like the bridges, parking lots and sculpture parks mentioned before these agencies are eating away at the money in your pocket book. For every dollar that you earn the government takes 47 cents, that’s basically half a dollar. It’s estimated that the government currently takes 4.5 trillion dollars from Americans every year. When you pay for a good such as food you are also paying for the regulations that some of these agencies impose, causing the price to raise. In a smaller government, these agencies would be drastically narrowed down and your taxes would be significantly lower.

So in the end what are the reasons for a smaller government? A smaller government puts more money in your pocket and lets you keep the money you earn, a smaller government lets you keep your privacy and keeps the government out of your life, a smaller government makes those in government work harder and a smaller government is in line with the very ideas of our founding fathers. The sole purpose of government should be to protect my inalienable freedoms listed in the Bill of Rights, not put limits on them like big government does. A smaller government leads to a more efficient government. A smaller government leads to a more free nation. We, as a nation, should be more personally responsible and accountable and with a gigantic government that is impossible. Big government is robbing you blind. I want the government out of my bedroom, out of my wallet and out of my life. One thing we must remember is that a government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.