Does the State Serve you, or Do you Serve the State?

Question

I Can See it Being Both, but What Predominates?

Answer 1

It's a mutual thing one hand serves the other.

Answer 2

Both ways. State predominates. State serves more.

Answer 3

It goes in turn. Right now the state serving the people is the predominant emotion. Everybody is looking for handouts, tax breaks, and general pork. People are looking after themselves, and do not support policies for the general good (they pay lip service but don't really support it....take SUV driving environmentalist. Or people asking poor countries to adopt rich country-like policies promising tourism instead of creating their own wealth industries).

Answer 4

It depends on whether you're talking theory or reality.

For the theory, you can look at the Declaration of Independence to see that governments are created by men to ensure the people are free, to serve their needs for mutual protection from plunderers, and to protect their right to do as they see fit to pursue whatever they think might make them happy (obviously within the limits of forcing others to make it possible). If you look at the basic Constitution, you see nothing in it that requires a Citizen to do anything, and no limitations on what a Citizen may do, other than age limitations for specific offices.

In reality, the fact that the government confiscates approximately one third of each citizen's earnings before they even see it, and does this in order to subjugate the working voters in order to persuade the non-working voters to continue to vote for particular elected officials, proves that the working class serves the State.

Do not mistake me, I do realize that the State provides roads and such law enforcement agencies as would prevent non-working citizens from cutting out the government in the aforementioned transfer of wealth by robbing me directly instead of indirectly, and I do appreciate these things. I just see things for what they are, and income taxation of any kind is theft.

I would prefer we return to financing the government via tariffs and user fees, and then we could all get back to living our lives without any government interference, which is to say, being free.

Answer 5

The state serves you by making laws, you serve the state by obeying the laws

Answer 6

You serve the State and therefore the country, hence Patriotism, and you honor that state and the country.

Answer 7

you serve the state hence income tax