A Day in the Life of John Q Public

It's 5AM. John rubs his eyes as pure H2O flows into the coffee pot from his reverse osmosis filtration system. It removes the sediment and prozac the state water monopoly won't.

His favorite coffee lights him up inside but he can't afford to drink it every day because the government coffee cartel keeps prices artificially high. He'd sweeten it naturally with stevia but it's expensive because the FDA is propping up the big sweetener corporations.

A swig of java sends his pills down. They damage his liver but due to government health care regulatory interference and subsidies - not to mention the government central bank's debasing of the currency - he can't afford the alternative: surgery. 

John uses a special shampoo sold by a chemist friend out of her garage - until police charged her with operating a lab without a license and selling an unapproved healthcare product. 

John sighs. The air is contaminated because the government subsidizes buses that belch chemicals into the air. Since the auto and oil companies have the government in their back pockets, zero-emission cars aren't available.

The train he rides was part of a private concern until anti-trust laws caused it to fail. Then government took over and raised prices.

John has a normal job with average pay, medical plan, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because that's what the government mandates. He'd rather get it all in cash so he can make his own decisions.

If John is laid off, he'll get an unemployment check because he pays into a local mutual aid society. But its future is uncertain because the government started a competing service and can legally force people to pay. 

John wants to leverage his baking hobby into a home business but the government requires he purchase expensive industrial baking appliances in order to get started. He might be able to - and quit his wage slave job - if the government didn't take 40% of his income.

John hops in his car, an import he paid too much for due to government trade restrictions and heads for his dad's home, built on land his great-grandfather first owned. But the EPA and OSHA want to shut down the family business, claiming it violates federal regulations. The local government just doubled the valuation of the property and wants to re-zone it as residential.

His dad would like to retire but can't. Due to self-employment taxes, he paid twice into Social Security but can only get the same meager check as anyone else.

John twists the car radio on. He hears that more government "solutions" are urgently needed to fix problems no one will admit government itself created in the first place. 

John is told that the free market has failed when in reality government won't let it work. John has seen that government aggression makes things more expensive, stifles innovation, steals our money, keeps us in wage slavery, pollutes the air and reduces personal choice. It's time for a change.