It Always Comes Back To Same Question: "What Should The Role of Government Be In a Civilized Society?"

By Chris Rossini

​Government is force.

That's it.

It's not Mother Teresa. It's not a caretaker. It's not a charity, or a helping hand. It's not a business. It's not a nanny. It's not a "regulator." 

It's force.

Government's first act, before it can do anything else, is to use force against someone. This is why America's Founders struggled so hard to chain government down. Unfortunately, those chains were broken a century ago, and government today is primarily seen as something that has the pow...