But how do you partition out cumulative responsibility? And isn't the most effective way to limit taxation....becoming a politician?
That worked for Ron Paul?
Maybe if you refused salary and any expenses you incur to the state?
That would be nice if you're independently wealthy and don't need to earn a salary, but it's not a viable option for most of us.
We're having elections for both the Texas state house and a city council seat right now, and it's really amusing to see people bicker back and forth on the newspaper's blog about the importance of electing a "true conservative." A lot of them claim to be Tea Party supporters. But of course they're all pro-life, anti-drugs, support forcing kids to say the pledge of allegiance in schools, support a federal anti-gay marriage amendment, etc. It hasn't occurred to any of them that real fiscal conservatism
requires social liberalism, because the money to chase down all of those immoral people and lock them up has to come from somewhere. I would even go so far as to say it's nonsensical to claim to be a fiscal conservative if you're also a social conservative-- you're just shelling out the tax money to put people in prison and otherwise control them rather than give them welfare.