the lotr theory of government

there's a nice long post coming soon. but first a shorter one that leads up to it:

my friend andy is a libertarian. he compares ron paul to frodo, with the federal government as the one ring - he must be entrusted with it for the explicit purpose of destroying it. nobody can use its power wisely (it corrupts all), therefore it must be destroyed. now, i'll address this theoretical argument in that long post. but here's a practical problem:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-3601

"H.R.: 3601 - Cost of Government Awareness Act: To restore to taxpayers awareness of the true cost of government by eliminating the withholding of income taxes by employers and requiring individuals to pay income taxes in monthly installments, and for other purposes."

this is a bill designed to annoy the taxpayer as much as possible and make government run as inefficiently as possible. which to me is part of the problem with paul's approach. if he was looking out for what was the best for the american people, not what was best simply for the popularization of his ideology, he would never want the government to work badly. this is the problem with having a government run by an anti-government party. they don't believe that government can be run well, so they don't even try and get in the way of good-faith efforts to try supported by democratic (small d) majorities. if you pass bills that make government work less efficiently, you aren't proving that government is inefficient, you're only proving that government is inefficient when you deliberately make it that way.