No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.
Sheldon RichmanThe alternative to the market process is government control, and we know where that principle leads.
Sheldon RichmanThe more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.
Sheldon RichmanThose who create the wealth naturally want to keep it and devote it to their own purposes. Those who wish to expropriate it look for ever more-clever ways to acquire it without inciting resistance. One of those ways is the spreading of an elaborate ideology of statism, which teaches that the people are the state and that therefore they are only paying themselves when they pay taxes.
Sheldon Richman