Quotas are a perfectly logical, if diabolical, extension of the regulation of private property courtesy of the Civil Rights Act, whereby in an attempt to shape American society in politically pleasing ways, people have been coerced into liking, hiring or renting against their will or better judgment.
Ilana MercerOneโs life, liberty and the products of oneโs labor were not intended to be up for grabs by grubby, greedy majorities. Contra classical natural law theory, legal positivism equates justice with the law of the state. However, from the fact that most Americans want others to fund or subsidize their health care, it does not follow that they have such a right. A need is not a right.
Ilana MercerIn a free society, the โvision thingโ is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free people understand that a โvisionaryโ bureaucrat is a voracious one and that the grander the government [...] the poorer and less free the people.
Ilana MercerThe Little Guy, behind whom politicians strategically coalesce โ thumping majorities prevail in a democracy โ cannot abide by a reality in which greater wealth affords greater "access."
Ilana MercerThe military works like government; is financed like government, and sports the same inherent malignancies and perverse incentives of government, down to the racial-spoils system.
Ilana MercerRon Paul would have demanded that entire departments be shuttered โ not that the bums merely bring into balance what was stolen (taxes) with what is squandered (spending). Besides, what a balanced-budget requirement implies is that government has the constitutional right to spend as much as it takes in โ that government is permitted to waste however much revenue it can extract from wealth producers.
Ilana Mercer