This book never garnered the attention it should have. Mr. Miller is passionate about facts and data, and he is impartial and non-partisan in his approach. This is a book that should be read by every American to understand that Government, in it's largess, is the reason we all suffer a loss in life quality.
As the author points out that Thomas Jefferson was a champion of small government, he is famous for his triad in the Declaration of Independence of "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." But what did Mr. Jefferson mean by this, perhaps if we read part of his first inaugural address we might just understand.
"What more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Stile one thing more, fellow-citizens - a wise and FRUGAL government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. (gasp) This is the sum of good government. . ."
However our idea of government has changed substantially. Today Obama was elected president and with it his promises of increasing governments intrusion into our life's, businesses, liberty and pursuit of happiness goes against the very foundation that this country was built upon.
All one needs to do is to ascertain the cost of today's government (not the more improved and expensive one coming up.)
Own a house - approximately $40,486 of a $ 223,600 home can be attributed to government regulations and fees. (82)
Rent an apartment then say goodby to $118 dollars every month that the government gets in regulations and fees.
Do you work at a small business (employing less then 20 people), well the average small business pays $6975 in regulatory costs PER EMPLOYEE every year. (121)
Want to buy an American car, well you will have to pay $ 3,845 extra for that vehicle just to pay for government fees and regulations that foreign car companies do not have to.
Let's talk about health care, I have the typical (blue Shield) insurance that covers my family and I pay very close to the national average of $ 5484 a year. (Sorry Obama supporters his $ 10,0000+ figure was a lie conjured up to help create fear.) Any how over $ 1,500 of that premium is used to cover government regulations and fees.
Let's put this into perspective shall we, in 2000 the indirect cost of federal regulation came to a whopping $ 843 BILLION. In 2004 the total cost of federal regulations was $913 BILLION, of which only about $ 36 Billion is for the federal agencies and funding their policing duties. (120)
To understand this more businesses were saddled with MORE cost of regulatory fees then they their total pretax profits were ($745 billion).
The bottom line is that there are people like myself, that see government as a necessary evil, but one that is to be our masters and not the other way around. The government when it becomes bloated as it has, and if promised will become exponentially more only reduces the working classes income, drives up cost of houses, cars, energy and healthcare. It will hurt employment and misdirect the efforts of entrepreneurs and most importantly it stifles vital marketplace creativity and innovation.
Fellow Citizens it took America nearly 50years to overcome the burdens put upon by the new deal, our children afford another 50 years of stagnant innovation placed upon us by the largess of inefficient government. Let us learn from our past mistakes and may God have mercy on us and this country and we head into an eara of what could be unprecedented growth, regulations and burdens placed upon the American people.
"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." Benjamin Franklin
Remember that people, President Obama has promised to make sure that 60% of the people pay no taxes but in fact receive money from the 40% that do, could this be the end of this republic?
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