It should enable healthy choices, but it shouldn't dictate many. A cornerstone of the American Dream that's been ceded to the left and made a point of mockery for the right is that America seeks to ensure equal opportunity but not equal outcomes. Increasingly the individual American is on their own, and if others can find ways to stack the deck in their favor, well, that's just good old fashioned American ingenuity, right? Competition to the exclusion of all else is largely ascendant over community, and any gains for my neighbor must obviously be at my expense, so why shouldn't I attempt similar gains at his expense? That's not healthy for America.

Governments role is as a facilitator, and the Founding Fathers understood that well. It's not properly a tyrant telling you how to live your life, but a partner assisting voluntary decisions to live your life better. Thus it's critical for government to engage the public and for the public to cooperate with government, but vital government not trample on peoples freedom. Which is where we get into flat taxes, the constitutionality of the 16th Amendment, Libertarians and the mindset any government service from which one doesn't directly and immediately benefit is tyranny. I'm less alarmed by the knowledge some people would object to funding the military if they could provide their own than the knowledge that if they have their way they'll do exactly that.