This Is How Government Breeds Mistrust
Posted By: Dodge Boy, 8/28/2022 9:34:17 AM
Keeping faith with others is basic to civilization. A government filled with suspicion does not earn the goodwill and affection of its people. Rather, it becomes an enemy in their eyes. The people’s disaffection increases the leader’s own mistrust. And so it goes, around and around, mistrust deepening at every turn of the circuit. A good example is taxation. The American income tax system has depended to a large degree on the willingness of people to fund their own government. Compare this to Italy in the ’80s, where distrust brought a very large percentage of the economy underground and off the books.
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This Is How Government Breeds Mistrust
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Keeping faith with others is basic to civilization. A government filled with suspicion does not earn the goodwill and affection of its people. Rather, it becomes an enemy in their eyes. The people’s disaffection increases the leader’s own mistrust. And so it goes, around and around, mistrust deepening at every turn of the circuit. A good example is taxation. The American income tax system has depended to a large degree on the willingness of people to fund their own government.
Compare this to Italy in the ’80s, where distrust brought a very large percentage of the economy underground and off the books.
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Such is the new America. I sure miss the good old days when we could live our lives for days and weeks on end without 24/7 propaganda. And the level of mistrust toward the federal government was more muted.