Most city council governments operate in a near-constant state of declared emergency.
As a quick exercise, do a quick web search for your city’s name, or any city, along with the search terms “city council emergency declaration” within the last year.
Did you find any declarations of emergency for your chosen city that surprised you? Do you agree with any of those declarations of emergency?
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Guest Post by Jeff Thomas
Governments are in the flimflam business.
Pared down to the bare essentials, governments can be very useful in passing and enforcing a small number of very basic laws. These laws should be limited to policing those who would seek to aggress against others, or their property. Governments may also have a value in providing protection from invasion – organizing an army of able-bodied people to address this collective problem, if and when it occurs.
And that’s about it. Beyond that, the private sector can, and almost always does, do a better job at virtually everything else. Therefore, a government should be small, cost very little to run and do as little as possible.
But since a government already exists, why not have it do more? Why not assign to it some of those tasks that tend not to attract businessmen?
Well, the simple, but almost universally little-understood, reason is that governments do not actually produce anything. They are, in fact, a parasitical construct that consumes money but creates nothing of worth.