Liberty & Justice for Real.
It often seems with government that we have to pick between a desire to do good and a right to be free, but I don’t think those two things stand in contention. Instead, I think we’ll never be able to really do good unless we are free. If we can restore government back to its rightful place as the protector of liberty and justice, then we will have the freedom to do the good that government never can.
It often seems with government that we have to pick between a desire to do good and a right to be free, but I don’t think those two things stand in contention. Instead, I think we’ll never be able to really do good unless we are free. If we can restore government back to its rightful place as the protector of liberty and justice, then we will have the freedom to do the good that government never can.
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Real Liberty.
Government is just one part of society, but it likes to pretend it can be all parts. In so doing, it ties down things that should be free. Imagine a strong man in a chair. You wrap that strong man with a piece of yarn or string. No big deal, it’s a small string, but if you do it hundreds or thousands of times you soon find that even the strong man can no longer stand under the restraint. That’s what it is like bit by bit as our government ties us in knots with taxes, regulations, and oversight, eventually leaving us bound. Often this is done for some immediate good or for good intentions, but in reality, we have left so much good undiscovered. Frederic Bastiat, a 19th century French enconomist, said that “[t]he real cost of the State is the prosperity we do not see, the jobs that don’t exist, the technologies to which we do not have access, the businesses that do not come into existence, and the bright future that is stolen from us.” Liberty, to expand on an idea from Milton Friedman, isn’t enough to make a society moral, but it is a necessary component. If we can restore the freedoms taken in the name of doing good, if we can restore good government, a limited government, then we can restore the liberty that we each need to do the good we have been waiting on government to do all this time.
Real Justice.
C.S. Lewis, who was a prolific author, most famous for his Narnia series, pointed out that if you come across a man on the verge of death and you give him a big meal you will invariably kill that man. His point was that it is not enough for us to mean well. We can actually do great harm with great intentions. While I think most of us know this, it’s been forgotten as of late at the capitol, particularly as it relates to the concept of justice. Crime is up. It’s up in part because the state has chosen to see those committing the crimes first and foremost as victims. It’s good to treat individuals fairly based on their circumstances, but it is wrong to forget that crime is wrong. Treating one group differently than another is also up. This is up because we want to right societal wrongs by using averages, but justice can’t be done by averages. It can only be done as individuals. Group justice is actually the opposite of what we have long known justice to be. We have to restore good concepts of real justice. Only then can we can protect the real liberty needed for us as individuals to right the wrongs government is presently making worse, no matter how well intended.
Real Hope.
We have so much that needs fixing in Colorado. Our schools are failing. Our roads are terrible. Our cities are riddled with crime. Meanwhile, the right to protect ourselves and our neighbors is being eroded. Property taxes are crushing everyone. Fees are now everywhere, from a $0.28 delivery fee to $0.10 grocery bag fee to you name it. Healthcare costs keep rising. Energy costs keep rising. Food costs keep rising. Illegal immigration is through the roof. Housing shortages continue. Costs are going up, and anyone lucky enough to be a landlord is being blamed for it. Control is the name of the game as businesses buckle under regulatory oversight and taxes. Thousands of pages of laws are being passed every year with thousands of more pages from promulgated rules by agency employees you don’t elect. Still, you’re supposed to know and follow all of it. It’s bad, and that doesn’t even consider our ballooning state budget that is stealing from what could and should be if that money was used for good by you rather than taxed. Worse, though, current leadership is lost. They don’t have real answers to any of this because they’re looking in all the wrong places. They have created a giant hole, but they just keep digging. What are we to do?
For starters, don’t panic and don’t leave. I know Colorado is actually experiencing a net loss of citizen population by some reports, presumably from all of this madness, but we can fix the state. I have great hope for what Colorado can be. We have a proud history here of hard work and of valuing liberty. We’ll need both, but we can manage. We can fix our tax code. We can roll back unnecessary regulations. We can trust you again with grocery bags and businesses. We can build a state that treats its people as adults, freedom loving adults, worthy of respect, not of monitoring. We can create a state that is a blueprint for all other states of what liberty and justice for all really means. We can focus government on what government is meant to do, and in so doing, free up the rest of society to do the good it was made to do. If we restore real liberty and real justice, we will restore real hope all across this state.
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Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all