The roads are paid for by tolls, gasoline taxes, and car licensing. While they are taxes, they are USER fees. Those who do not drive a car don't pay them (that includes the freeloading bicycle riding anarchists in Critical Mass). Tax bicycles NOW.
National defense IS one of the stated roles of government.
I could do without public schools, they don't serve the public. Between the NEA union and the radical Safe Schools Czar (who was part of the Fistgate controvesy teaching fisting to kids), we don't need federal influence on our courses.
If labor laws are so good, let's impose them on all nations so that we can equally compete in the marketplace rather than offshoring jobs to achieve lower costs and higher performance.
Environmental laws passed by the EPA are an unconstitutional to our 3 branches of government with a separation of powers component.
Social security is a ponzi scheme and clearly medicare/medicade aren't working (A)because insured patients and those who are self-pay pick up the "unpaid" costs of medic-patients and (B)we wouldn't need to put all Americans under Obamacare if we could have simply insured the uninsured by expanding the coverage under medicare/medicade.
Our monetary system is a joke since we went off the gold standard. Printing funny money is not the answer. China is waking up to this reality.
As to "teabagger", it is a homosexual slur, so when your liberal friends use it, they are being "homophobic" just as they were when they called Iraq War supporting Americans "Chickenhawks", a term for a man who chases boys.
None of the tea party patriots are calling for an "end" to government. They are calling for SMALLER government and more self/independent reliance. Charitable giving will go down as people are taxes more and the deductions for directed giving go away.
Tea party patriots love this country and oppose Obama's brand of "CHANGE" just as they opposed Hillarycare and the other Clinton agenda items they tried to ram through 1993-1994 (which ended when the GOP took back the House and Senate). It isn't racism that drives this. It isn't sexism that caused opposition to Hillarycare. It is a rejection of Socialism.
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