Why limit the government?

Why limit government? Why not?! 

• We do a better job describing Hell than Heaven. 
• We want to limit government, because we are opposed to excessive government. 
• We want to limit government because we support freedom and the free society.
• We want to limit government because we want to maximize opportunity, enterprise and creativity.
• We want to limit government because we want to permit individuals to go as far as their talents, ambitions, and industry can take them.
• We want to limit government because we want people to dream and to have the room to bring those dreams to fruition -- for themselves and their families.
• We want to limit government because we want to strengthen the institutions of civil society that tend to shrink as government grows. Institutions such as the family, church, synagogue, mosque, community, and the many voluntary associations are the bedrock of liberty and self-reliance.
• We want to limit government because it ought to be confined to certain minimal, but critical, functions and otherwise leave us alone.
• Government has nothing to give anybody except what it first takes from somebody, and a government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you've got.
• The political process is no way to run a business or almost anything else. The deficiencies, absurdities, and perverse incentives inherent in the political process are powerful enough to frustrate anyone with the best and most altruistic of intentions. It frequently exalts ignorance and panders to it. 
• A few notable exceptions aside, the political process tends to attract the most mediocre talent with motives that are questionable at best. Government runs on the political process and all of the problems endemic to politics show up in what government does and doesn't do.
• Politics is a serious business because it's the part where coercion puts flesh on the rhetorical bones.
• What makes a politician a politician and differentiates politics from all other walks of life is that the politician's words are backed up by his ability to deploy legal force on their behalf.
• Mutual consent encourages actual results and accountability, the political process puts a higher premium on the mere promise or claim of results and the shifting of blame to other parties.
• In the marketplace, you always pay for what you get. In politics, the connection between what you pay for and what you actually get is problematic at best.

Limiting government is a lofty endeavor. It's good, honest work. It's a powerful message when presented well.

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Politics may not be the oldest profession, but the results are often the same.

Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is force. 

Like fire, it can be a dangerous servant or a fearful master - America's Founders