Hey Jim, ya think it’s a bit odd government controls everything, taxes, regulates everything, is in everyone’s business, then ya look south to the borders and it’s totally an unregulated, untaxed violent chaotic free for all? Hmmmm.
Did it occur to you the big dollar corrupt fat corps that run off to cheap labor Chinaland et al, support all these regulations, taxes and controls for their competitors back home?
Your problem and mine is the big dollar corrupt fat and UNCONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
Which is worse to you, economic self interest or political self interest? Greed in business may cause them to do all sorts of crazy things, but exchange in the open market is voluntary and you don’t have to buy their stuff (as long government has been kept from preventing open competition in the marketplace).
Contrast that with greed in government. Exchange with government is coerced and involuntary with the threat of fines and/or imprisonment. Government greed is all about them spending your money for their benefit and future political prospects). Government greed is also about the power to take and utterly waste your money (government thinks your money is actually theirs) as well as the power to tell you what to do and not to do.
The 800 pound gorilla you are ignoring is the bloated, dangerous, and mostly unconstitutional federal government. They are by far the greatest threat to our free and prosperous society.