"...it is not up to us to provide counterexamples "
Yeah, God forbid anybody should respond to an assertion by actually refuting it.
You do realize you are doing everything humanly possible to avoid the actual core of the discussion, right?
''At what point is government control too much government control?
Have we reached that point? If so, when? If not, how much more control do you want?''
I have come up with many examples of government overreach and abuse on a number of fronts. Not one has gotten the response from you or others that maybe, just maybe, this has gone a bit too far. If anything, the response is amazement that this kind of thing should bother me so much.
Maybe more than a "little out of whack."