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Question: What should be the primary role of governemnt?
#1
To initiate a radical redistribution of wealth
 
#2
To help those less fortunate
 
#3
To protect the people from foriegn threats
 
#4
Should be minimal
 
#5
To protect the wealthy and priviledged
 
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John Dibble
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« on: September 05, 2005, 06:57:24 PM »

None of the Above.

The role of the government should be, first and foremost, to protect the rights of the People. The government should also ensure Justice and order, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. These purposes, however, are all really corollaries of the fundamental purpose of protecting rights.

(Note: I use "general welfare" in a limited sense, not in the rather broad sense that some suggest. For example, immigration policy should be tailored to promote the general welfare. I don't mean to include universal healthcare, for example, under the heading of promoting the general welfare.)

Very well put.
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John Dibble
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« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2005, 07:53:25 AM »

Government is an institution used by some to kill or enslave others and steal their property, and can be nothing else.

So we should look to those who control our government and hold all the property as the oppressors?

Politicians, policemen and bureocrats don't "hold" all the property.
They don't have to, since they control it anyway.

I was refering to the owning class, which controls everything around us.

Wow, you're getting paranoid.
What next, all of the members of this "owning vlass" are freemason lizardmen?

RUN, THE OWNING CLASS IS COMING! OH NOES!

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