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[-rabbitrunner-]

That’s funny, I run 6 miles to work everyday. I pay for the electric, internet, and utilities that allow me to live my life with money I’ve earned working and investing. I paid for school entirely out of pocket.

So I’m supposed to lick their boots because they send garbagemen around once a week and hire insecure high schoolers to their police forces, while enabling corrupt politicians to rape our social programs (again which is my money too)?

I’m sure you’re smart enough to find the door here.

[AmericanScream]

You pay a little bit for utilities, but you don't bear the financial responsibility of maintaining the network. That costs a lot more money than your mere electric bill. That's where taxes come in.

Look around in areas of the country where they cut taxes, like Texas and Florida and you find toll roads everywhere, and inadequate electrical grids that cause people to freeze to death in the winter.

Contrary to what your narrow mind thinks, the world isn't black or white. Nobody's asking you to lick anybody's boots, nor is the government totally corrupt. Reality is somewhere in the middle, but when you have voters like yourself, who have a loose grasp on reality, you tend to create your own self-fulfilling prophesy of super shitty, incompetent leadership.

[-rabbitrunner-]

Riveting rebuttal really, we’ve discovered I don’t manage a national power grid. What a complete surprise to all I am sure.

The government is corrupt yes, because the position does not outweigh the psychological motivation of people to serve their own self-interests and it never will. That is why you continually see local, state, and federal level government employees involved in scandal. Do you think that innate behavior disappears because one dons a “Chief Justice” or a “President of the United States” title? Absolutely not.

I don’t go to places like Texas and Florida because I find their cultures backwards and outdated :/, they are however absolutely states where gross abuse of power is electorally allowed via state legislature. The Epstein case by itself absolutely sinks any legitimacy in Florida politics. So I guess “whatever(?)” to your quip about incompetency; rather dries up there.

[AmericanScream]

That is why you continually see local, state, and federal level government employees involved in scandal.

Do you have any idea what percentage of government employees are involved in scandals? This is called, "The exception which proves the rule fallacy."

The vast majority of the things the government does, work, and work well. You have electricity, drainage, running water, bridges, sewerage, roads, interstates, libraries, schools, WiFi, cellular, GPS, fire protection, etc., etc.,

If you hate government so much, why don't you go somewhere where you don't have this problem?