re: #92 auldtrafford

no problem, I usually only get nudges from the left in here. A right-nudge is a welcome surprise.

We likely agree that the government, especially at the federal level, is always giving carrots and sticks to do what it likes - buy homes for the mortgage tax deduction, burn less gas for all the tax we pay on it, smoke less even though my lungs are no one else’s business, etc. On the other hand, idealism aside, we have a lesser of 2 evils thing here. A ‘free society’ is squeezed by busybody nanny state taxes, but our ‘free-ish society’ is also squeezed by foreign entanglements, air and water pollution, etc. Take high gas taxes as the example. If we all drive more efficiently due to market forces’ reaction to expensive gas, Hugo Chavez and the Saudi royal family can’t make as much trouble. It’s not idealistic, but the world is full of lessers of two evils.