"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavours to live at the expense of everybody else."
"Thus, the public has two hopes, and Government makes two promises--many benefits and no taxes. Hopes and promises, which, being contradictory, can never be realised."
Policy has three stagesIn the first place, there is a decision to make a decision(arising from problems). The policy process then moves on to a different set of decisions about exactly: - what should be done
- how it should be done
- and when it should be done.
The states aim is not to maximise GDP, but to maximise "SAP". (State accessible product) - production that is easy to identify, monitor, enumerate and confiscate through taxation.
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