Government exists only to protect us

The May 5 Daily Herald was "Obama focuses on overseas tax loopholes."

This is an article on ending so-called offshore tax breaks, or at least it is what the newspaper wants you to think. Perhaps they do think it because like its readers, most publications simply reflect, for the most part, a lack of understanding of the proper purpose of government. Here is what it is: To protect the American citizen from acts of physical violence, to establish a system of law, and a military to defend America.

The purpose of government is protection, not force. In this new attempt at using force it violates the Constitution, but the article never puts that in writing. I think it is because The Associated Press, like most of our citizenry, actually believes government has this constitutional right. It doesn't. But then it also does not have the right to use the Bible to swear in a newly-elected politician. Ayn Rand wrote the following, and I say she is the second greatest American behind Washington:

"A moral code that urges man to surrender his mind to a higher authority is irreconcilable with the principle that man ought to live his life guided by his own thinking. If obedience is a virtue, freedom of thought and action cannot be a right.

"If the good is an egalitarian society, for example, then it is virtuous to expropriate the wealth of the rich and give it to the poor. If the good is that which gives the greatest pleasure to the greatest number, then it is virtuous to kill off some minority of undesirables, if the majority so wishes."

Ala the use of force, let us begin!"

James King

St. Charles