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I know you are being hyperbolic to prove your point. So, I won't argue about the carrots example. I will give it to you that local bureaucracies at times expand way to large and become inefficient. When adds excessive burden on regular folk. However, sometimes these roadblocks are not because they are a natural function of government but are barriers others in society lobbied to rent seek.
But I will ask you to consider that sometimes you want the government to be overbearing. You want them to force schools to desegregate, you want them to tell emergency rooms that can't deny you care, you want them to tell insurance companies they can't deny you because of preexisting conditions, you want them they can't deny a black person service because of their skin color.
When people complain about big government infringe on their freedoms, they sometimes forget that some of the freedoms they enjoy are because of government intervention. And with more good interventions their freedoms and options could be expanded. If there is great public transportation that opens up the job market for poor people, if there is affordable healthcare and housing available then it strengthens a workers bargaining power, free childcare give working class people more options, EIC lefts folk out of poverty, universal pre-k, and community college or trade school enhances the economic prospects for young people, municipal cable lefts folk escape their ISP gouging them, the Consumer Protection Bureau has returned billions back to consumers, and antitrust regulation protect jobs in smaller markets
I really think your main issue is not that you don't like the government. It is that you're like many people are upset at what it uses its resources and energy on. If was put to task with helping regular people and not the richest of the rich, I feel your option on the institutions would improve.
Yeah, I feel you. Of course a lot of good things have come of it like all you have mentioned.
Then you got public schools for example, why do we have horrible schools? You can’t blame anyone else but the government. They are running the show there.
Why was my high school on the regular side of town a 25% graduation rate while my sisters on the rich side was 95%? They were both public schools, one just had a lot more funding.
Your last paragraph hit the nail on its head. Look at your paycheck, you work about 3 months a year for free for the government. That’s what pisses me off, why is it that our taxes are going to the military and maybe space force when we got people with poison water and kids in broke schools?
Our ideas are so screwed in the country. What do we need the strongest military for when we can’t even take care of our damn selves?
I’m just giving examples here, I could go on forever.