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Government Is Good at Nothing. Stop Having It Do Everything
God bless actual intellectual Thomas Sowell. May he live healthily – for as long as he wishes to live:
“As long as human beings are imperfect, there will always be arguments for extending the power of government to deal with these imperfections. The only logical stopping place is totalitarianism – unless we realize that tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom.”
“The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices – paid by others.”
“If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.”
Government is awful. At everything it attempts to do.
Yet its advocates insist on perpetually expanding what they want it to do.
The metric tonnage of its past misfires – does nothing to diminish their push for ever more expansion. (more…)
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