Government really is organized crime. It is a protection racket. “Nice store you have here. It would be a shame if something happened to it. You got kids? Well, maybe if you pay these taxes and follow these regulations, may everything will stay all nice and peaceful like, eh? You’d like that, wouldn’t you?”
Randy Weaver and the Branch Davidians will remind you.
Some wise person whose name I cannot come up with said that the only legitimate job of government is to protect the citizens against criminals but inevitably the government USURPS the function of the criminal and becomes a greater danger to the citizens than the criminals could ever be.
I rank that as one of the most clear, concise and BRILLIANTLY STATED TRUTHS ever written. It also seems to rank as one of if not THE most obvious fact that is so simple and so obvious that most people can simply never comprehend it, they keep looking to the government for solutions when a little reflection should tell anyone that the government is not in the solution business, they are in the business of creating problems. Most government is simply a legalized version of the old Mafia “protection” racket. The three most often repeated lies are, the check is in the mail, I am from the government and I am here to help you and...the third one is a little too bawdy to list here.