Prof. Antony Davies: Government Size Matters - It Should be Smaller

[@MontanatheMaverick]

As a current college student I would trade every professor I’ve had so far to get a class with Anthony

[@LearnLiberty]

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[@dustinstarling4340]

I always love to hear Prof. Antony Davies speak. He is able to break down the complex into chewable bite-sized solutions.

[@LearnLiberty]

Dustin, glad you enjoyed it!

[@Iamwolf134]

Solutions? More like parts gearing towards a larger, overarching solution.

[@Californianbychoice]

Buying Spain would actually be a better use of the money

[@fatpotatoe6039]

Imagine if they had invested that whole 15 trillion buying assets in foreign countries and then using the income to cover expenses.

[@Californianbychoice]

@@fatpotatoe6039 haha that would be interesting, albeit government managed assets, especially in foreign countries, underperform

[@fatpotatoe6039]

@@Californianbychoice Still a better return on investment than just consuming it or fixing potholes in Beverly Hills like after the GFC. Not that I'm really advocating they spend anything!

[@Californianbychoice]

@@fatpotatoe6039 I live in SoCal, wish they would fix potholes in Beverly Hills Lol. You are right ofc. Not to mention that Spain, a modern country, would perform better as an asset

[@Californianbychoice]

@@vardekpetrovic9716 damn this opportunity went away fast!

[@DMM-cv5fh]

I’m showing this to my college students! I teach poly sci, and this is something everyone should see and remember

[@bradwatson7324]

The right size of government is no government.

[@ExPwner]

Yes! Beat me to it.

[@bradwatson7324]

@Florida Man Anarchy, yes. That is correct. Mankind has made great progress in that direction over the centuries; we just haven't yet gone far enough.

[@wclifton968gameplaystutorials]

I don't think Anarchy would really work since who is going to pay for street lighting or national defense? Same thing with Anarcho-Capitalism. The right size of government is probably the control of land the size of places such as Liechtenstien, San Marino, Andorra, Monaco, Transnistria, Singapore, Hong Kong or just the size of Greater London + the city of London (1sq mile) but me saying London is the right size of government control is a bit biased since I'm from there; and when I say control of the amount of Land, well that means that the government has less land to control which means that its automatically smaller due to the nature of a smaller population which would (in theory) make it more efficient...

[@ExPwner]

@Florida Man "That's called anarchy." Yes. No rulers, not no rules.

[@ExPwner]

@@wclifton968gameplaystutorials that implies that defense must be done on a national level, which is nonsense. People pay for things that they want. People can still voluntarily form together to make their defense more practical/effective, but that does not mean that they must be forced into it.

[@ExPwner]

ZERO! That is the right size. You do not speak for me and I do not consent to be governed.

[@rexmann1984]

Yeah but who's gonna build the roads?

[@ExPwner]

@@rexmann1984 the private companies that already do so today. Not sure if you're saying that ironically as the meme or if you're unaware so that's my honest answer. Walter Block has a whole book on it: The Privatization of Roads and Highways.

[@01nmuskier]

Anarchy hasn't worked very well.

[@rexmann1984]

@@01nmuskier Anarchy isn't some Utopian ideal. You cannot stop some people from rape murder and theft. But with government you guarantee that some will.

[@ExPwner]

@@01nmuskier on the contrary, it has worked very well. Humans existed longer without states than we have had states and additionally the more modern examples of statelessness such as Somalia were better off stateless than with a state.

[@darthhodges]

The argument against local governments having more power that makes the most sense to me is that it generates a system where different places have different policies and laws and it gets confusing for those who travel frequently. My response would be "We already have that, the rules for getting married, paying taxes, getting a driver's license, buying a house, carrying a gun, or even eating at a restaurant can now vary dramatically from place to place. At least with less federal level regulation we can optimize for each place's local needs instead of one size fits all solutions that usually work for very few if anyone."

[@vd1721]

The states have total control over laws if need be so local laws can be struck down . Also laws cannot violate the Federal or state constitution. This is criminal laws. As far as allocating resounces etc Yes let them decide locally they know better. THE USA was supposed to be more like the European Union was before they started getting totalitarian. States with more control and only a Federal nion for cooperative issues like a military. We;ve become massivley centralized

[@nco_gets_it]

welfare is always a destructive force in any nation. The natural inclination of people is to use their vote to acquire the resources of others. This is cost free to the recipient and often unnoticed by the payers. However, over time, the recipients start to outnumber payers, but the politicians are in power only because of the votes of recipients, therefore, the government begins to favor the looters over the producers. Business leaders notice this and align themselves to the looters as well. From that point (about 1996 in the USA) on, the society is doomed to ever increasing antipathy and some form of civil breakdown becomes inevitable. The looters, secure in their self righteous sense of entitlement demand more and more from an ever shrinking pool of payers, the most wealthy of whom have protected themselves by bankrolling the very politicians the looters want elected. This is why democracy cannot succeed over time.

[@ekklesiast]

zero. zero is the right size

[@darthhodges]

It seems to me those who honestly believe big government is better do so with a form of compassion that is expressed by wanting to prevent any bad choice from ever being made. The policies they resort to, however, usually take the form of preventing people from receiving bad consequences, thus incentivizing them to continue high risk or outright bad behavior.

[@LearnLiberty]

The main problem is that people like when someone else cares about them, but they don't realize its price. They should understand that the government is not the source of kindness.

[@freeman48083]

Please make these videos available on rumble as well.

[@brianwhite3428]

Great video Prof. Keep up the good work

[@homewall744]

People don't move to buy/sell the government they want. If they go to that level of action -- unlike ANYTHING in a free market -- they are feeling really oppressed. Business cannot oppress you as it cannot make you buy anything, competitors will exist, but you never hear about people moving so they can be closer to some business.

[@daverush2030]

have you not learned anything since the last 3 yrs and the obama health care plan .. 1st business CAN certainly oppress you and make you buy anything and people do move . not to buy / sell but to flee oppression , and forced sales . prime example .. phizer private drug company .. made billions upon billions of $$ with the help of federal and state governments . hand in hand by way of force thru demands from gov mandates and the gun of the u.s gov comply to get the jab . if you dont comply even at private health care / non gov hospitals .. to get the jab .. your job is done .. just ask those nurses , police , firefighters in blue states if business didnt oppress them , or make them "buy " anything .. i would argue that yes they were forced to "buy" their jobs or lose it if they did not except the federal gov controlled demands they held small and large businesses too .. all those tik tok nurses that the biden admin praised as the heart and soul of the nation , 1st responders , bravest people america has .. and then turn around and tell them .. get the shot or your fired ... you are not as important as you were 3 months ago .. we will replace all of you with the national guard . and what did alot of people nurses , firefighters , cops .. small business owners etcc do .. they hauled ass to florida , texas , where they wernt "oppreseed and force to buy their jobs " .

[@yuriyanu2694]

What's the right amount of cancer?

[@fatpotatoe6039]

BAHAHAHAHA I wish I could like this twice.

[@ExpatriatePaul]

Sadly, this problem has been growing for decades, ever since 1936 when the New Deal SCOTUS case U.S. v Butler brought about an irrational interpretation of the Constitution used to this day that has allowed the fed gov to grow far beyond its proper boundaries in size and scope.

[@2vnews902]

Anarchy = No Rulers = Freedom Law without the state is possible.

[@tryfindme1573]

He know what he's saying. ;) Good for hear him once more. Hope many more videos.

[@williams3711]

What about when someone votes for terrible policies at the local level, those policies then ruin the neighborhood, then they move because they don't like the neighborhood, then they vote for the same policies as before?

[@caster863]

Shitty politicians are gonna get elected in any government. It's just that smaller governments in general are more effective and less corrupt than the federal ones. You don't have to move to another area if the leader is shitty, unless if he/she is really shitty, but you can vote them out.

[@fatpotatoe6039]

CALIFORNIA

[@johnsaxon5154]

Don't let immigrants vote until the 3rd or 4th generation. Or ban immigration from lefty areas.

[@fatpotatoe6039]

@@johnsaxon5154 No way. I'd prefer a Hong Kong immigrant voting over your average American. Most immigrants seem to believe you shouldn't get stuff for free, and wouldn't be a problem if we just don't give them stuff, and once their children are enculturated, they are the ones who spout rubbish about their oppression and entitlement to free stuff.

[@johnsaxon5154]

@@fatpotatoe6039 if foreigners are better than Americans you've got big problems to solve

[@stevenkeller452]

Go with small government conservativism like when Calvin coolidge was president

[@cdistasio]

The right size of government can be best regulated when the financial system it's not a Fiat system that can be created at will. Look at the whole debacle of creating a trillion-dollar platinum coin to deposit into the Federal Reserve banking system. That should tell you all you need to know pertaining to our monetary system

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

Wait platinum coin what?

[@paulthomasshepherd5156]

The bigger the government the smaller the people. Big government by the government, of the government, and for the government.

[@forthcoming1000]

So few people see that there is another option to the duopoly that is current day government and sadly think they have no choice..

[@TracyII77]

I think that not enough is made in the Liberty community to highlight the competitive nature of suburbs WITHIN metropolitan areas. I think that most people find the idea of moving to another country, state, or large city as daunting and therefore not a practical way to combat poor local governance. Also, when people think about suburbs in particular, they tend to view them as a monolith either as mere extensions of their urban centers or in stark contrast to the same city centers. But suburbs are not monoliths and compete for residents all the time. For example, plenty of people work in Raleigh, NC but choose to live in neighboring Durham, Chapel Hill, or Cary as each of those cities has very distinct cultures, ordinances, and subset of city services. Another example is regarding the suburbs of Detroit. After a snowstorm, you can easily see many of the various boundaries between each suburb by how quickly and frequently the roads are plowed. You can literally be sitting an intersection where you have clear roads in one direction, unplowed roads in another direction, and lightly plowed in yet a third direction. It boils down to each suburb having different tax bases and differing priorities. And this is true about a great many different issues faced by these local governments. This is no secret and most metro Detroiters live in different suburbs from where they work, where they shop, and where they go for entertainment. So a young couple may decide to rent an apartment in a cheaper suburb with little regard to the school system one year and then after starting a family move to a suburb with a higher ranked school system. And this move can be made without having to change jobs or leave behind friends and family. This network of cities also allows for people to live in close proximity to loved ones with differing views on how their government should be run without sharing that same government.

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

Modern car suburbs.. make me sad. You are right that moving over a certain distance for some people is a non starter.

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

To be fair, I don't think cities that big.. with suburbs of that nature and sprawl should be managed by one entity who likely doesn't know the local situation

[@moribundmurdoch]

Why doesn't the USA just split up into smaller countries? Do we humans still love this giant empire stuff?

[@stayswervin554]

Then americas way of life would be no more smart guy, the communist need to leave tho

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

Federal government and some others would throw a fit. I honestly think it might be a decent option.

[@kamranrowshandel6395]

Is there any doubt that if it's likely for the thought of one's nation's government to cross one's mind when one is idle, that one's government must be ENORMOUS (and that those for whom thoughts about their government never come to mind are those who have a smaller government)?

[@peterphiri3378]

Our Modern day Milton Friedman

[@PeterParker-ff7ub]

Because a guy with a goatee knows what's best!

[@rwarts5150]

I concur 👍💯👍

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

Curious about thoughts on a UBI. (As a general replacement for Welfare spending)

[@MatheusRocha-jb2xy]

Nice!

[@larrysmith2636]

The right size of government (mind rule) is no mind rule. Have a nice day.

[@postmaloneofficial]

Get a better mic Antony. This channel is too big to be using a $5 mic

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

Didn't even notice to be honest

[@homewall744]

Nope, the right amount is nearly as little as possible. Power corrupts. It's a system of thieves and murderers once you let it get bigger than necessary for the very limited needs where competition simply isn't possible.

[@LearnLiberty]

What do you think, which institutes should be owned by the government and what should be the optimal rate of taxation?

[@Iamwolf134]

It's not as if the federal government can be shrunken overnight, either.

[@Nickname-wi8kz]

Right size is no size

[@jamesthornock8214]

Zero

[@Ms0321-b]

What a smart and handsome daddy! 😅

[@SkLLzDaTkLLs]

You guys should really be posting on Odysee as libertarians!

[@4n4rch1st7]

They wouldn’t have as big of a platform on there

[@SkLLzDaTkLLs]

@@4n4rch1st7 It's not an either/or. They can do both.

[@rumlia]

1 Example that contradicts the store A vs store B example: Reagan supported huge deficits (The Triumph of Politics by his economic advisor Don Regan) and the balanced budget by Bill Clinton. Second, corporations are not entrepreneurial anymore, they have become monoplitistic monsters dictating what people should have thru planned obsolescence, for instance, even if that harms the environment (and the future of many species). The thing I like is the primacy of the local community that the prof stated very well. I see a contradiction these days in the realities vs principles and I attribute that (to a large extent) on, as somebody stated before fiat currencies and an endless series of attempts to 'fix' the system by large governments; the added bogey is slogans such as: 'nationalism' in a world of 'globalism'

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

Some businesses still follow the old ways, but it is big business is a thing nowadays

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[@SeriousPOV]

Libertarians are right on, until a crisis happens...and a crisis always happens. Local learderhip in the American south was not good for a lot of people. This a naive video...

[@21dolphin123]

Unfortuantely he has his economic history wrong . All the rich countries became rich through protectionism, going back 300 hundred years in the case of Britian . From 1871 to 1913, "the average U.S. tariff on dutiable imports never fell below 38 percent [and] gross national product (GNP) grew 4.3 percent annually, twice the pace in free trade Britain

[@WhoIsJohnGaltt]

Tariffs might be the only taxes I agree with to fund the government. That’s what Thomas Jefferson did at least. Also incentivizes people to produce things within their own borders instead of importing.

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

Yeah that's fair

[@ncrdisabled]

as a disabled vet i hope they pass the 3.5 trillion bill

[@WhoIsJohnGaltt]

It is against your rational self interest to hope that happens

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

There's a troll in there somewhere