A lovely Hopey Changey idea: < Rolling government back on all levels may still work. > Let me know how you get on with that. So far, after lots of talk about it for many decades, the trends are not in your favour and bankruptcy beckons.
There has to be incentive for things to happen. What gets rewarded gets done. At present, the rewards are to Bigger Government people. The discussion globally is on how to keep the game going. People who speak in favour of rolling it back [and mean it, such as Ron Paul] get little electoral support.
Keep in mind that when you value assets of a country, it's not just roads and physical objects you need to count. It's often the more abstract things such as a crime free country, common law, protected private property rights, secure borders, protected commons such as clean air, spectrum and water, trustworthy reliable courts and political processes, which are most valuable. <There are still plenty of assets, like highways, parks, government land, ports.... But are those assets enough even to begin to justify a price in the millions per citizen?> You can get a reasonable idea of the worth of a country [as it is now] and citizenship for it from GDP per capita. It's not just the publicly owned physical assets which create the citizenship value.
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