Small government was Re: [extropy-chat] EMP Attack?

[Brett Paatsch]

Spike wrote:
 
> These government guys wonder why we don't trust them 
> and want smaller government. 

Most politicians know that they are not widely trusted as a class.
It hardly matters so long as their opponent constitutes a still worse
choice.  

But how small a smaller government do you actually want? 

Roman emperors achieved very small governments but that situation
didn't prove ultimately stable, not even for the Roman emperors
themselves.

Clearly smaller government isn't of itself always better government.  

Brett Paatsch