re: #289 freetoken
If the government confined itself to the few basic functions that obviously have to be done by government at some level, I’d have no complaints.
You’re just being naive if you ignore the tendency of agencies to become concerned mostly with perpetuating their own existence and expanding their powers. Then you have the natural tendency of politicians to buy votes with other people’s money. The great advantage the USA had is a constitution which was designed primarily to limit the power of government. “Progressives” at one time said quite openly that they regarded the constitution as an obstacle to what they wanted.