Quote 369 "No-one can be forced to buy what which he does not want, still less to pay for that which he has not bought. (Yet this is exactly what happens in government by proxy.)" -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon "You compare the nation, perhaps to a parched tract of land, and the tax to a fertilising rain. Be it so. But you ought also to ask yourself where are the sources of this rain, and whether it is not the tax itself which draws away the moisture from the ground and dries it up?" -- Frédéric Bastiat
Milton Freidman on Government spending
Ron Paul and Peter Schifff on Government spending
DependentsSomething for nothing (The myth of free goods)Quote 804,806 “ The idea that these persons are currently getting something for nothing is a pernicious hoax. Those who are not wealthy simply receive very shoddy services for their money and then cannot afford to pay the additional amount necessary to opt out of the monocentric system. The real question then is whether everyone could receive better services for the amount they currently pay if they were free to choose their service provider than if they must take what the political system foists upon them in return for the money it confiscates.” " The public schools and the post office demonstrate the ineffectiveness of providing vital services in kind. Many families opt out of the public school system, even though this means that they will have to pay for two school systems at the same time. Others cannot afford to pay twice and are stuck in the public system. The premiums charged by the burgeoning express package delivery industry indicate a similar failure of government-provided postal services." -- Randy Barnett
LinksLink386 Free public services
Link387 UK Government GIST website
Link389 State funded activism |