A short statement that speaks volumes about my ideals

I don't get involved in Twitter very often but every now and then someone I know that does will forward something to me that really stands out in my mind. I had a Twitter account a while ago but after not really seeing the purpose of it other than to promote already famous people who don't need more promotion, I don't see why it is that people get involved with bickering with strangers and thus increasing their already high stress levels.

My friend sent this to me and while it doesn't 100% represent me, it is really close.

If you ever tell someone that you are "conservative" and I am, to much of the population this is a dirty word and one that has been intentionally tarnished by the media and various political groups. A lot of people will also assume that you are "alt right" even when most people don't even know exactly what those words even mean. I am not alt-right, I am just one of these people that wants the government to stay out of my life in almost every regard. I believe that people can be self-governing and my community is living proof of this. We have virtually no crime, and people obey certain civilities like not driving too fast or driving drunk not out of fear of getting busted, but because it is as sensible things to do. We don't break into our neighbors' houses not because we are concerned about getting caught and going to jail but because we have respect for personal property and there is also that little thing called "Castle Doctrine /Law" that enables said neighbor to use lethal force to prevent us from doing so.

I'm not going to go so far as to say that I don't think the government should exist at all but in my mind we could eliminate about 90% of what they do and society for the most part would continue to function. It seems that almost every time the government does almost anything they do it in the most expensive and incompetent way possible, and any time they pass a new law or mandate the true objective of it is to limit the freedoms of society.

When I look at all the various taxes that we all pay on almost anything I already know that the various cities, states, and localities MUST do this because of all the things they created that they have to fund. There are absolutely tons of government jobs in the USA... far too many of them actually, and most of the people I know that have these jobs tell me that the do almost nothing in a day's work and can't believe they are being paid an annual salary for doing something that requires almost no effort. One guy I know does a job checking various papers for the Environmental Protection Agency on construction jobs (therefore I interact with him regularly for his signature) and to this day, he is very open about the fact that he isn't entirely sure what his job actually is.

The "tax-debt slavery" thing is a self-perpetuating cycle. The officials can't eliminate these positions because they would be accused by their opponents of not caring about the little guys or accused of eliminating jobs. Someone would say the old trite statement of someone "needing to put food on the table."

The government has gotten bigger and bigger and because of this they are always going to need more money... your money. The government solution to this in their insanity is to create even MORE government jobs.

When you think about this one aspect of things it starts to seem a bit insane.

When you work, the government takes a piece of your earnings
When you spend what is left, the government takes a piece of that transaction
If you bought something big like a car, house, or land, the government charges you annually to keep it
When you sell those things the government takes some of the money exchanged during the sale
If you have the audacity to die when you have these things, the government takes a piece of all of it.

I'm the type of conservative that doesn't want my ideals forced upon anyone. If you like my way of life, get your own just like it! If you don't like my way of life or I don't like yours, you don't have to live it and I don't have to live yours. It seems like all the time when the government gets involved in things they want to force, through threat of violence or captivity, everyone to agree with whatever the notion is that they have at the time and this is just flat-out wrong.

I'm not an anarchist, but I am damn close to it. I don't believe that the government in its current form serves almost any purpose other than the fleecing of the populace so that they can keep and expand their own power.