re: #283 Barflytom
You continue to deny that you are not alone on this planet, in regards to how you think economics works.
Your very existence depends upon the people around you. Without their well-being, you would shrivel up and die.
And that is what “government”, in a democracy like ours, is. That “government” that you despise so much is simply the totality the humanity around you.
When you despise the EPA you despise the effort to keep people from getting poisoning from our industrial wastes. You see governance like the EPA an intrusion into your precious world, while all the EPA in fact is simply results from trying to deal with aftermath of having so many people living in one place and producing so much waste.