“Vote for the person who you think is creative enough to solve the dilemmas that have unfolded in Elbert County in the recent past.”
That pretty much rules out everyone Mr. Thomasson. Even if you reduced the problem set to the domain of government originally intended by the Founders, not a man alive could be smart enough to solve that set of problems. In the present, where government has expanded its control into myriads of areas of our lives it cannot possibly understand let alone resolve, the proposition is even more absurd. Any candidate sufficiently delusional to believe in the myth that one person could possess such capacity should be allowed nowhere near a controlling office.
A commissioner should be elected not for what they promise they will do, but for what they promise they won’t do. Here are some examples:
- I promise to not support tax increases.
- I promise to not grow government.
- I promise to not increase regulations on the private sector through planning and zoning.
- I promise to not impede economic growth in the private sector.
We have enough 1) taxation, 2) government, and 3) regulation, and not enough 4) economic activity. What are the odds that there is an inverse correlation between the first three and the last one? I’d say bet on it.
The prescription for the success of Elbert County is a simple one. Limit government, expand the private sector. It is the philosophy that built this country. It works. People know what is in their own best interest. All they need is the freedom to act on that knowledge. Government does not, and cannot know, what is in each of our own best interests. Life is tough enough without having to carry the dead weight of an oppressive bureaucracy on our backs.
The visions of the left are attractive and alluring, but they’ve never become reality anywhere they have been tried. Moreover, the more power vested in the state in the various social experiments of the past several hundred years, the worse the outcomes have been. This is not an arguable or close call. Mountains of evidence of human misery caused by leftism exist. The death toll runs in the 100’s of millions. There’s just no point in going down that road any further.