Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'
Sheldon RichmanThe more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.
Sheldon RichmanThe government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power.
Sheldon RichmanThe alternative to the market process is government control, and we know where that principle leads.
Sheldon RichmanWhen government 'creates jobs' by taking money from the private sector and 'investing' in favored projects, it is not truly productive activity. Rather, the government has preempted the economic process, forbidding it to serve consumers so that it can instead serve the objectives of politicians and bureaucrats.
Sheldon Richman