Always remember the difference between economic power and political power: You can refuse to hire someone’s services or buy his products in the private sector and go somewhere else instead. In the public sector, though, if you refuse to accept a politician’s or bureaucrat’s product or services you go to jail. Ultimately, after all, all regulations are observed and all taxes are paid at gunpoint.
Category: government
Built-in excess
Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.
Right-sizing government
I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution.
There is a difference
Love your country but fear its government.
Government power
You can’t give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad — in fact, to do anything it wants.
The greatest threat to individual liberty
The Left’s ‘resistance’ to Trump is a tacit acknowledgement that conservatives have been correct all along: The great threat to individual liberty is government.
Limit government to governing
The root evil is that the government is engaged in activities in which it has no legitimate business.
Authority without responsibility
If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.
Government vs. industry
All government, in its essence, is organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.
Power in high places
Those who complain the most about the quality of the people in power are the ones who put all that power there in the first place. Well, what kind of people did they expect it all to attract, anyway? Sheesh!