Enjoy freedom and don't ask for too much government intervention please

Comments on IAN KIERNAN “Move on bottled water inspires”, 22/07/2009, http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/opinion/editorial/general/move-on-bottled-water-inspires/1574349.aspx

While government may have a role to play in the issue, it is not clear what the government should or should not do just responding to the single issue bottled water alone.

Ultimately it is each person's responsibility for their own finance. It is generally better for government to interfere with everyone's own life as little as possible. We don’t want the government to become the police looking over our shoulders all the time, do we?

There might be a market failure or externality in the issue of bottled water that may justify for a government intervention. But government may have more important and far-reaching jobs to do than looking at minor individual or specific issues.

We should not think to ask government to intervene in this or that so freely. We should respect ourselves and others to make our own decisions for our own sake.