[kabar]

Save me the sophistry. I favor limited government and a government in accord with the Constitution. One of the primary responsibilities of the federal government is the common defense.

Is your point that the federal government and/or all government must be eliminated entirely because it is the product of the redistribution of wealth thru taxation?

[precisionshootist]

Is that what you read in my post? I did not say anything about eliminating all government. providing for common defense IS one of the the very few legitimate functions.

My post was to illustrate the fact that government does not produce ANY wealth. Government consumes wealth. This includes every government paid employee and ALL the costs associated with that employee, including salary, benefits, pensions, buildings to work in, desks, computers, pencils, the light bill, the phone bill and on and on.

Our country is going bankrupt paying for excessive government.