The Leveller: A modern day regulator

12 days is not enough

Rhode Island will shut down its state government for 12 days and trim millions of dollars in funding for local governments under a plan Gov. Don Carcieri proposed Monday to balance a budget hammered by surging unemployment and plummeting tax revenue.
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I’m looking for the first state to completely shut most of its services and let local communities pick up the tabs for their respective services. Those that needlessly collect benefits will have to make do without. This would be a state that will have the lowest taxes, the lowest crime, the lowest in every undesirable statistic. But will draw the most ethical, the hardest working, the most honest law abiding citizen in the land. From these people will we receive solace and gratitude. Instead of the multitudes that are compelled to “give” to the common good by way of onerous taxation that siphons away from the good by profiting the wretched. The modern citizen of a democracy can not be treated as the unarmed subject of an emperor, no matter how benevolent!

Out of this abyss will come innovation and more economical sense. Government does not facilitate anything but a hand-out. Citizens that are left alone can better provide for the common good than government trickery and fraud.

In this case what, the 4,000 person union is a benefit to the state because they have a job? And these people pay taxes, and that tax money benefits who? So the main argument for state employees is to provide jobs? Oh, ok, services to the people correct? This is all a lark.

These state governments do little. Most people that are affiliated know this. But some people feel they deserve a benefit from the state that receive it. As if it is their right. Many workers in private business’ even feel as if their job is something that is owed to them. Imagine working in an environment where there is little accountability, incentive to outperform, and everyone feels as if they are owed something anyway. That is an environment that is lazy, apathetic, and loathsome where the unscrupulous receive without conscious effort.