It's interesting when you are there how many people (including many of the less well-off) have bought the "small government" line.
My all time favourite was the woman at a Trump rally holding a sign that said "Government ! Hands off my pension". Recently Mrs Tigers
and I were at an golf resort in the US talking to a barman who told us he'd moved to the area because the local taxes were less but
then complained about how the municipal services were really poor there. In defence of the US though there are considerably more
challenges when you have a population of 325 million people. Plonk another hundred million people down in Australia and it would be
a whole different ball game here. I think the selfishness gene is likely distributed pretty evenly around the world. Look at what happens
when people think they are going to run out of loo paper and footballers get told they'll have to take a pay cut.
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