[Superman]

Pat, much of what you say above makes good sense.

I like the flat tax idea myself, but wonder how long it might take us to decide to tweek the tax code to (again) deliberately encourage some types of financial decisions. I'm not saying this is right or wrong, just saying a move to a flat tax would upend a number of industries, and some of them are industries we would like to encourage. Home ownership, for example. The practical implications are not so simple as the glamorous ideal.

Government cannot legislate morality. Christianity is not a government. It might be a great idea to discourage a behavior, and a lousy idea to criminalize it.

Drug laws do little more than maximize drug profits.

so you see, we can agree on some important things. And gubmint is corrupt. Human nature is what it is.

Now, I have asked and asked and am still waiting. What happens when you have no government? How does that work? Your lofty ideals are amazing and you are obviously a genius, far beyond our feeble understanding. So now, tell us how police services are provided under your government-does-not-exist plan, and who gets those services. Tell us why America will not come under attack. Tell us how private businesses will form a utopia in the absence of gubmint regulation, and how those businesses will resist the temptation to cheat people. Or is that something we should not care about?