my solution is no government at all, and everyone takes responsibility for themselves and those around them.

fortunately, without government siphoning off up to 65% of your income (depending on where you live,) we would all be easily able to afford to look after our sick relative, club together with neighbours to repair common utilities, etc. etc.

now i'm not foolish, i realise that even if this was a massively shared goal (which through mass programming it currently is not,) we would have to go through several phases of decades of reducing government bit by bit (starting with military spending and debt/ deficits) before we got to this ideal, but you did ask me what i'd prefer..

think about it, massive centralisation of power and control of resources, plus mass everything/ globalisation, have not led to a fairer, happier, healthier, more prosperous and peaceful world have they?

isn't it time to try the other end of the scale then?