It's unfortunately necessary that we are dependent on government for some infrastructure; interstates, some water, some sewage, some power, to begin.
How about our currency, street lights, fire protection, police protection, orderly retail, commercial and financial markets, national defense, airports, stop signs and stop lights, the mail system, prisons, international relations, trade relations, the judicial system, most health research, most drug research, most science research, a lot of the arts, regulation and testing of virtually every consumer product, regulation and testing of food, regulation of building standards, regulation of how you maintain your lawn, water quality, street cleaning, animal control, pre-collage schools and many universities, prisons, safety nets for unfortunate people, many hospitals, EMS, drug testing, fixing pot holes, building bridges, workplace safety... virtually everything you touch everyday has first been touched by government.
That's a bit more than "some infrastructure". If you had to provide all that for yourself, you wouldn't have the time to be successful. And if you took it all away we would be reduced to something like Haiti.
You should be thankful that you have the government you have... without it you are nothing. |
