"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On 13/05/16 09:38, Capitol wrote:
The key point is that it is unnecessary legislation. This costs the
taxpayers money in ensuring conformity. IE MORE TAXES IF YOU DON"T VOTE
LEAVE!

+100

This is the real key thing: At what point does it cost more to tax you and
pay bureaucrats to give it back to you in terms of services you would
rather either not have, or could easily have chosen and paid for yourself
if you hadn't had the tax money removed in the first place.

Is the purpose of government to create make-work and redistribute income
from those that earn it to those that frankly don't, or is it to provide
uniformly (bad) services to everyone at a high price in terms of taxation,
or its it to keep the peace, mend the roads and stop johnny foreigner
wandering in and creating mayhem etc?

It's all of those, and to stop the locals crating mayhem too.

And to do some stuff like providing health care at a much lower
cost than when other than government does it. That's why the US
spends TWICE as much per capita as any other modern first world
country does and gets a worse result in the measures that matter
like longevity, infant mortality and years in good health.

It used to be simply the latter,

That's a lie with govt schools alone, let alone the postal service etc.

until the Glorious Socialism of the 60s onwards assumed that we all wanted
high taxes (as long as someone else got taxed) free services (even if they
were worth what you paid for them) and lots of chaps with speed cameras
and parking tickets going around telling you that you couldn't do the
sensible thing...

And a health care system that left what we had before the war for dead,
particularly with health care for say the bottom third of the country.

And left the previous approach of workhouses etc for dead too.