[Vision2020] Cost of Government Day

[wallis@moscow.com]

"Cost of Government Day" is based on the estimated cost of all 
government, including taxes and the direct and indirect costs of 
government regulation. As it is complied by Americans for Tax 
Reform, an organization which "opposes all tax increases as a 
matter of principle, " it seems unlikely to be an entirely balanced 
estimate of such complex costs. Nevertheless it must include the 
cost of the air bag in your car, the cost that food producers incur 
to keep diseases from infecting your food supply, and a myriad of 
other costs imposed by  government.  Each of us benefits 
profoundly from the direct and indirect costs. And each of us can 
list a slew of things that government does that we don't like. It is 
the blessing of democratic government that we get to have a say 
in how much the government spends and what it is spent for.
Jim Wallis