the government you hate so much allows you a life that most on this planet will never see.
Utter horse sh!t. I don't so much deride government as hold its venal plundering pompous bureaucrats who feel self qualified to run everyone's life in utter contemp. Government pillages far more today than it did ever before in the history of the country including WWII, and to what effect? Vast wealth transfer programs like NASA like the ethanol fuel garbage, like the $15billion for African AIDS. The list is endless. None of these things enhances the quality of life for anyone except those who draw big fat paychecks from or sell inflated goods and services to the government. Every penny taxed away to be spent foolishly by bureaucrats is a penny lost to what the taxpayer really wanted.
Pierre Proudhon said it quite well:
"To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished."I wich I'd thought of it first, but obviously the problem has been around a long time.
Your counter to the records offices is an interesting take, so you are suggesting that county recording offices just came about for the sake of taxing low citizen, and bilking him... not, as history shows, out of a need to protect the private landholder from false claims against his deed? I see, so the entire system is nothing more than a scam to get your property taxes out of you... it doesn't do a damned thing to help society at all... man you are one really angry person... Government law historically occur out of need, not out of desire... is their pork? SUre, always has been always will be... same is true in private industry... or did you miss that little Worldcom, Enron, Global Crossing, dot bomb little chaos not long ago?
Don't want to believe me? Look for example right now at the movie industry... they are caught time and again marketing adult material to kids.... they promise not to do it again, make up some voluntary system they follow for a while, then ignore when the heats off, heat returns they do it again.. currently we are in about the 3rd or 4th round of this cycle... eventually because the industry won't self govern, laws will happen... not because government says, hey we like passing laws, but because repeated attempts to let private industry do what is right, have failed.
It is obvious you loathe government, and that is your choice. As to vast utter wealth transfers, I hardly consider a program such as NASA that consumes less than 1.5% of the annual budget as some huge wealth redistribution, especially considering that the government takes in far far far more than that from sources other than your income tax. You rant against the 15B Aids plan over the next what 5 years? In budget terms you are talking less than 1-2% annually... again revenues are far more than that from sources other than income tax... you wish to pick a redistribution policy, pick something better to rant against.
None of these things enhances the quality of life for anyone
Few million people suffering from a horrid disease who would argue it does enhance their quality of life... I suppose if you are poor black person from Africa, you obviously aren't "ANYONE" in your mind... glad to see you put your cards openly on the table. So you just stay in your little world.