It is not the citizen's responsibility to feed or house his neighbor, so neither can it be the representative government's responsibility either.  Charity and compassion must be voluntary, and dare I say essential for a 'civilized' people.  Most social ills are caused by government overstepping its authority — like printing money until it becomes nearly worthless, which is the primary cause of poverty in the world.  Every animal in nature must provide for itself or else perish.  Man cannot avoid the laws of nature.

The claim that 'we' are the government is inaccurate.  The people chartered a government with strictly limited powers represented by elected officials with strictly limited duties — certainly the representatives have no more powers than those of the citizens that elected them.  Individually, we are self-governing, that is to say, I am responsible for myself, have rights that the government did not grant and cannot take away, and the government may not dictate what I must do.  The government itself is made up of a minute subset of the people.  

What all the people in common have are our rights to life, liberty, and equal protection of the common law.  Anything else is usurpation.

The IRS is the collection agency for the private Federal Reserve.  America's gold was seized and exchanged for interest-bearing notes with the condition that income taxes would be required to guarantee interest payments on the notes (that they issue out of thin air).  Since then, the 'dollar' has lost over 99% of its purchasing power, and the people have been enslaved to an unpayable debt forever — the national 'debt' is in fact ALL the money in circulation and more!  Certainly the greatest crime in America's history.

Over the years it became apparent that Waffler was indeed an IRS employee...

Of course all those things have been tried — see the former USSR and Soviet states, China, North Korea and every failed nation-state that embraced national ownership and control of everything.  It has never worked and never will.  Sheesh, your ignorance knows no bounds...

We've certainly "come along way, baby."

I don't recall ever saying f-you to you, Fred.  I have however called you narcissistic, delusional, and mentally disordered.  "Mature" is not a word I would use to describe you...

Pure BS!  Every communist country (and yes they are actually REAL communists — the leaders say they are and so do the people) requires a dictator.  Name ONE communist country that is not totalitarian, Fred.

Once again, defenders of communism / socialism say 'true' communism / socialism has never been tried.  That's the thing, though, communist revolutions never deliver on their empty promises — THAT'S COMMUNISM!  Once a people give up their rights, rarely if ever do they get them back...

Never in the history of communism has ANY of those things been achieved.  Your delusions are on full display.

Sheesh! Government is just another human relationship, loving, caring, courtesy, and courage?  What planet are you living on?!

Let all ideas compete in the marketplace of ideas.  Personally I find your ideas neither prosperous nor reasonable.  I find them abhorrent, and history demonstrates their utter failure to fulfill their empty promises.

And that requires taxing people's labors?  You cannot raise a man up by tearing another man down.

Fred, your mental acuity is obviously disordered.  It is plain to see.

Perhaps you might take your own advice...

Blecch!

That would be capitalism.

Imperialism and colonialism are NOT capitalism.

Talk about babbling nonsense ...

Communism doesn't work without a dictator, only one political party, prison camps, and firing squads.

Good grief, Fred.  Hundreds of millions were rubbed out by their own communist governments, the rest enslaved by the Party.  This is what it means to be human? (!!)

The theory of communism can be summed up in one term: APPROPRIATE.

Fred, I didn't expect you to agree, as you can always be counted on to defend 'socialism' while in complete denial of its utter failure in practice.  You absolutely support and extoll the virtues of national democratic socialism in your many posts.  The German acronym for such a party is N.A.Z.I. — fascism is just another form of socialism, as Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, and the German people called themselves. 

I for one believe the fascists when they say they are socialists.  Communists are on the 'left' of the socialist scale, and fascists are on the 'right.'  Russia and Germany were at odds with each other because each competed for dominance in the statist political world.  Both claim to be 'democracies,' and both forms depend on authoritarianism to hold power over the people.  The 'anti-fascists' are most commonly communists.

A statist form of government (like a monarchy or any form of socialism) and the American republican form are diametrically opposed to each other, each deriving their power from different sources— one by force and one by consent.

I will agree with you that a nation that accumlates an unpayable debt is hardly representative of the Constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government and is in fact a direct copy of a statist/socialist form.  Ever since the US traded its hard currency backed by gold and silver for interest-bearing notes, the die was cast, and the road to socialism (fascism rather specifically) was paved.

If only the people were not so un-educated, they would understand how they have become enslaved by this debt-as-money system — one of the core planks of communism, I might add.  There is no such thing as a socialist government without a debt-based currency, in fact, it is the ONLY way to pay for it (at the expense of ALL the people).

Mike usually reminds us that 'law' is not legislation or statutes — it is not man-made, it already 'is' and requires no human 'enforcement,' it is self-enforcing.  With that understanding, liberty absolutely requires seeking the precepts of the 'law' and acting in concordance with them.