Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Rand Paul: This could destroy the country" video.

  1. “No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!” ― Ronald Reagan
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  2.  @gregr.9547  And their motto: "If it ain't broke, we'll fix it till it is." 👍
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  3.  @JS-ki5yq  Help me to understand something, you seem to be saying the capitalist system lies at root of the problem, that unless you put a cap on how much people own you will end up with a larger government. So how do you regulate wealth and impose the caps you recommend? Sounds like you need a large, intrusive, apparatus to pull that off which is exactly what you get with a socialist system. Or will people just naturally give back what they have earned (or stolen for that matter) and say, you're right, we need to share the wealth in order to shrink the size of government, my bad? It sounds like you are railing against crony capitalism, which I agree is a problem, but to pin it all on capitalism is a false assertion. Plenty of people enriched themselves in the socialist paradises they were claiming to be working on while the average person starved or was imprisoned for asking uncomfortable questions about how the whole thing was supposed to work. Is our government broken? You bet it is. Is it broken because of the capitalist system? There, I respectfully disagree. There are plenty of billionaires drinking from the government trough, but that game is as old as humanity itself. You know who would get rich off a system that imposed caps? The cappers.
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