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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's first impulse towards someone doing something they don't like ceases to be "there ought to be a law", 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?  "A republic, if you can keep it." according to Ben Franklin.<p>We didn'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'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.