Shrinking government

The so-called “progressives” are always expanding government, especially after the bureaucrats abuse their power or otherwise screw it up. I have watched this phenom for years after every Texas tornado or hurricane.

FEMA was late again getting aid to Oklahoma (big surprise) but you can bet that instead of getting its head handed to it by Congress, FEMA will get more money and more bureaucrats to “solve” the problems. We can be sure the Democrats will try to do the same with the IRS scandal:

“The progressive answer to this is more rules and regulators, more agencies and safeguards and accountability projects. Republicans should recognize this intervention for the ridiculousness it is – creating more federal entities to watch over federal entities – and focus their arguments instead on the only solution which will actually work: removing power from the federal government and returning it to the states or the people. The only way to ensure that government doesn’t abuse a power is to make sure it doesn’t have this power in the first place.”

Read that last line again: “The only way to ensure that government doesn’t abuse a power is to make sure it doesn’t have this power in the first place.”

For instance, how about a flat tax or a national sales tax? Eliminate all the discretion now given to the IRS and its partisan Democrat thugs.

Not that I think the Republicans are any more likely to shrink government than the Democrats. Indeed, they’ve proven they won’t. But they’re our last (and fading) hope.

UPDATE:  U.S. ‘crats have held up Canadian charity relief supplies for Oklahoma tornado victims at the border.