"Aye, free! Free as a tethered ass!" —W.S. Gilbert
"All the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and . . . the State should be abolished." —Benjamin Tucker
"You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." —James Madison
"Fat chance." —Sheldon Richman
Saturday, September 08, 2012
In Denial
Politicians and pundits reveal their pre-Enlightenment mentality whenever they deny--explicitly or implicitly--that there are economic laws which impose strict limits on what rulers can accomplish.
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