Since 1933, New Deal farm policy has continued and expanded, pursuing its grisly logic at the expense of the nation's consumers, year in and year out, in Democrat or Republican regimes, in good times and in bad.
Murray RothbardRemember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result.
Murray RothbardCops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error.
Murray RothbardAll government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.
Murray RothbardAll interstate wars intensify aggression – maximize it … some wars are even more unjust than others. In other words, all government wars are unjust, although some governments have less unjust claims.
Murray Rothbard[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.
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