IT IS A POLL LIKE THIS that got the government into problems with the gambling/web shop issue. While it is good to listen to the people and to hear what they are saying, the government must make its decision to do or to not do things based on practicability and necessity and not public opinion. IF you run to the window and shout, "My people, do you think this is a good time to tax you?", of course the response you get back will amount to "HELL NO!" But if you inform the people that government needs more money to carry out the peoples business, then the response *may* be more favorable. Any government that has to ask permission to govern should not be a government.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Winston Churchill

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

"If, then, taxation is compulsory, and is therefore indistinguishable from theft, it follows that the State, which subsists on taxation, is a vast criminal organization far more formidable and successful than any "private" Mafia in history." Murray Rothbard

***Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

P. J. O'Rourke

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