As a people, we have been lured into a mindset that government
is here to take care of us. The proper role of government is to protect
our rights so that we can pursue the path of happiness which is down the road
of independence and individual sovereignty. Individual sovereignty traded
for communal security is not a fair trade. Government control in the name of
security affects the economy both internally and externally. Internally we see
production naturally occurs when there is a hope that a given effort will
produce a given reward. When government meddles with and lessens the
reward it lessens the production. Consumption occurs because the earth’s
natural resources are converted into things useful and beneficial to man and
then made available to those with excess resources to trade value for
them. A free exchange of information, ideas and enterprise causes an
economy to flourish. Externally, government affects an economy because
government does not produce–it only consumes. The more we allow government to
consume, the less of the economy is available to benefit the individuals within
that economy. When government brokers all activity, it creates friction
between government and the rest of the economy. This friction slows all
activity. With fewer laws, there will be a broader agreement and less
friction between a government and a people. Few laws respect the sovereignty of
the individual. It takes a pretty darn good new law to be better than no
new law at all. This is the success secret of limited,
Constitutional-based government with few laws and a broad agreement. The
less the friction, the greater will be the flow of the economy. We fix the
economy by lessening the consumption of government, then lessen the friction
and restrictions upon production and activity to allow the fullest
participation of those who desire to build the economy (which is most everyone
once legal plunder is abolished). This is the intent of the Declaration
of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. Opposing is government based
on power brokering and sell off of influence. We can make our great state
the bastion for the principals that allow an economy to flourish and thus a
flourishing economy will follow.
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