The second coming of disgraced and oversexed pols Anthony Weiner (quite
probably the next mayor of New York City) and Eliot Spitzer (who has announced
a bid for city comptroller) helps to explain widespread and growing
contempt for government. Every grandpa in Peoria, every schoolgirl in
Seattle, every cartoon of a crying Statue of Liberty is asking the same
question: What do you have to do to get banished from government work?
The short answer: you can’t. Government and the people in it can always get worse, less competent, and more appalling. As an ardent believer in what the libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick and others called “the night-watchman state”—that is, the bare minimum in taxes and publicly provided services such as cops, courts, defense, and maybe some roads—I should be thrilled by the hollowing out of faith in government. It should be the first step toward punching Leviathan in the nose and squeezing him down to size.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/12/no-one-trusts-the-government-and-that-s-bad-news-for-libertarians.html
The short answer: you can’t. Government and the people in it can always get worse, less competent, and more appalling. As an ardent believer in what the libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick and others called “the night-watchman state”—that is, the bare minimum in taxes and publicly provided services such as cops, courts, defense, and maybe some roads—I should be thrilled by the hollowing out of faith in government. It should be the first step toward punching Leviathan in the nose and squeezing him down to size.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/12/no-one-trusts-the-government-and-that-s-bad-news-for-libertarians.html
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