March 22, 2017 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
02:54
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(upbeat music) | |
| I'm pretty sure you all know that I'm a small government guy. | ||
| What small government means to me, at least economically, is that you should keep most of what you earn and that you yourself are the best arbiter to decide where your money goes. | ||
| Whether the money you earn goes to fixing your house or buying a new car or to funding Planned Parenthood and supporting Lincoln Center, I believe that should be up to you. | ||
| You've worked hard for your money, I assume, and I believe that you're a better judge of how to spend it rather than giving it to a wasteful government which will often spend it on programs that you don't even care about. | ||
| At the same time, being for small government isn't only about taxes and economics. | ||
| At its root, being for small government is also about being for the individual. | ||
| I believe that your faculty to understand how you want to live is far better than anyone else's faculty on how you should live your life. | ||
| At the same time, I understand the need for the government is different depending on whether you live in a rural area or an urban center. | ||
| In a rural area with less people, there is most likely less of a need for regulation than there is in an urban area. | ||
| Take something as simple as a noise ordinance. | ||
| If you live in a remote rural area in the middle of the country, there is most likely no need for a law to stop people from doing construction in the middle of the night or blasting their music too loudly. | ||
| But if you live in an urban center, say New York City, where people live in small apartments on top of one another, a noise ordinance might be important to you. | ||
| You can't have construction people knocking down walls at all hours of the night and you might not want your neighbor blasting music at 3am. | ||
| The next piece of the limited government puzzle is whether or not the government needs to be involved in so many facets of our lives at all. | ||
| Even in the case of New York City with its cramped conditions and tiny living spaces, is it the government who has to tell companies not to do construction in the middle of the night or tenants not to blast music at ungodly hours? | ||
| This is where an interesting discussion can happen. | ||
| Is it the job of the government, as laid out by the Constitution, to regulate these interpersonal issues? | ||
| Or is it the job of individuals to deal with these issues themselves? | ||
| Should a building in New York City have a policy about noise instead of leaving it to the government? | ||
| Should it be incumbent on you to talk to your neighbor about the volume of their music rather than leaving it to the government? | ||
| Can issues we think of traditionally being dealt with by the government actually be dealt with in the private sector, or is the government already too deep into controlling us that we could never scale it back without burning down the system? | ||
| While noise ordinances aren't the most pressing issue out there, obviously, I use it as a simple example of the battle between the private and the public, and how sometimes we assign power to the government when perhaps There could be a better option based in our own capacity to reason for ourselves. |
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