What Government Do You Want to Cut?

As a commenter said, more eloquently than me,

What government do you want to eliminate? I'm guessing they mean the government that works to keep planes from falling out of the sky or into each other, the government that works to provide a free education to all school-age children, the government that keeps melamine out of our food, the government that protects you from losing all your money if your bank fails, the government that connects our cities with freeways, the government that provides healthcare access to millions, the government that keeps parks and libraries open and free to all, the government that prevents utilities from charging you whatever they want, the government that stopped rivers from catching on fire and made smog alerts rare, the government that keeps food stores from labeling a 3 pound sack of onions as 5 pounds, the government that checks the quality of the water running in your pipes and the government that makes sure that when you flush your toilet, it doesn't just flow into the nearby lake, the government that helps make most places in this country safe enough to where you don't have to carry your gun to the grocery store in order to get back home alive, and the government that completes millions of other tasks every single day so that you can wind up with the discretionary time to sit around and wonder, on the government-created internet, likely using government-generated power on a government-regulated grid, in a building that was likely inspected by government inspectors to meet government safety standards, what the government does for you. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's that government they were referring to.

I couldn't have said it better.