Can we still achieve smaller government
Posted by timbill on Friday, 02 March 2007 00:26:42
David,
I have been dissapointed to hear your comments in support of comprehensive education and progressive taxation since your leadership election.
Do you not agree that the Conservatives are all about freeing prople from the Government interference in their daily lives?
Labour and the Lib Dems will always use the education system as some great social experiment and the tax system to change our behaviour (for our own good of course). Their policies of wealth distribution have created a welfare system which is not the safety net it was intended to be, instead it has become a trap of dependancy for generations. I live in Medway, home of the Chav, and the lack of ambition and the desire to remain at the bottom of the social order is depressing. This welfare and tax system has also had the effect that the middle class family, the core Tory vote, is now saddled with the burden of paying both for those below who can't/won't contribute and for those above who have the means to avoid contributing.
There is probably some merit in both the ID cards and road pricing as policies, but again the Left wingers' controlling tendancies come through and they are turned into opportunities for surveilance and the erosion of the civil liberties of the innocent majority. Now we're talking about random stops to perform breath tests as well. People who can are leaving this country as its unique status as a free place to live has been almost completely destroyed.
Perhaps a government for the people rather than of the people can only be created when it is formed on the principle of "First do no harm".
Yours
Tim
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