Competition made our air cleaner, not regulation. Business has a large incentive to make the purchase and operation of the goods and services we purchase chaper. Consumers want cars that are more fuel efficient - we spend less on gas - but not the legislative kind that undermines the power and capability of the car. Technology has allowed us to buy cars with the same output capability that uses fewer inputs. We want this, we want to get to the same place and do the same things with less fuel. This creates a sales advantage over competitors. Air quality legislation didn't do this, continued technological improvement did.

The surface income taxes and other easily and obviously calculable taxes are not our main burden. The 47% that pay no INCOME tax pay a huge percentage of their annual earnings into taxes, including income taxes. One of the largest is the pass-through expense of the corporate tax. On top of having to pay inflated pricing to take into account corporate income taxes, these individuals also fund the accountants and lawyers who exist for the sole purpose of calculating and paying those taxes. Additionally, a myriad of fees and other taxes by different names are being levied on products and services in the back end that never show up on the receipt. Taxes cannot be compartmentalized. Those 47% should care, any tax hike is a tax hike on them.

It was in the centuries when government was weak to non-existent in the Western world did we enjoy our greatest leaps in prosperity and advancement..

And those uses can compete with the desire for money, like all other things have to compete for alternative uses. Money isn't special and does not need to be segregated from supply-demand mechanics.

Define "enough". Money needs to be scarce and unable to be produced just because someone wants more of it to represent the same scarcity and limitations of everything else in the economy. By not having "enough", this makes it a perfect form of money.

A State in Constitutional parlance is not a physical location. If it was a physical location, the many provisions and amendments wouldn't make sense. How can one reserve power to a geographical location? State is defined as the legislative and executive body that holds power over the geographical location. Interstate commerce meant the federal government can regulate commerce between the legislature of Georgia and the legislature of Florida, not between Joe Bob in Jacksonville and Jimmy John in Savannah. The Federal level was never given power to regulate commerce among the people. Interstate highways are not interstate commerce because the highway is not an interaction between two or more state governments.

Repeal the regulations making it impossible for private space exploration. A private company cannot set up a rocket launch facility out in the middle of nowhere Arizona for example since various Federal laws effectively prohibit this. The private market outperforms everything government claims to do. NASA's existence is what held back America, not its defunding. Return space exploration to what amounts to the Steve Jobs' of the world.

Liberty is a binary concept. It either is or isn't. There is no such thing as "extreme" liberty. Libertarians seem to be the only ones actively promoting it because others that may claim liberty don't really believe it. Modern conservatives only want the illusion of liberty - with all the trappings of the State making sure everyone uses that liberty the way they want to. You're free to do whatever you want, so long as what you want is what we tell you to want. All we need to look at are long-standing Blue Laws, Department of Homeland Security, continued support for government funded education, and other things that conservatives still support to show that the conservative movement is anti-liberty.

VAT - A means for a government to tax people while getting the people to blame businesses for raising prices.

What's the difference between the Mafia and the Government? When you pay the Mafia the protection money, they stop harassing you and actually keep the bad element out of the neighborhood. Government takes your money then uses it to harass you even more with a host of regulations and approval processes. They then turn the police, who do a horrendous job of crime prevention, on you to shut your business down and throw you in prison should you fail to comply with the harassment to perfection. I'd rather have a private milita and police force - they're reliant on your business and life being productive. Our existing police force is only reliant on the guy cutting the check - government