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There is a group who have proposed a solution to this problem for decades:<p>Shrink the state.<p>Until people stop believing that any effort to do so will result in everyone literally dying in the street, the state will grow.  Until people&#x27;s first impulse towards someone doing something they don&#x27;t like ceases to be &quot;there ought to be a law&quot;, the state will grow.  Until people stop demanding that laws must affect the entirety of the country instead of just their state, the state will grow.<p>What sort of government did we start with?  &quot;A republic, if you can keep it.&quot; according to Ben Franklin.<p>We didn&#x27;t keep it.<p>Keep it small, keep it close, and recognize that there are limits to the problems a bureaucracy can solve.  Be suspicious of all power.  Be suspicious of all taxation.  A massive government can, and does, wield incredible fortune like a weapon against the population.<p>Shrink the state until politicians are no longer worth buying and it barely matters who holds the reins.  Trust your neighbor a lot more and your government a lot less.<p>Or do none of this, but don&#x27;t ask why nobody told you this could happen.  Because we did, and you laughed at us and told us we were juvenile, loathsome, heartless people.