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Government is essentially a big computer that elicits from citizens their preferences and uses this information to produce social decisions.

— Harvey S. Rosen

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Plato argued that in a good society the ratio of the richest to the poorest person's income should be at the most four to one.

In this country, the number of individuals on the government payroll certainly underestimates the importance of government.

If the goal is to help the poor, why not give them the money directly?

If it makes sense to transfer income from rich to poor people within a generation, why shouldn't we transfer income from rich to poor generations?

The mere ability to postpone taxes may not seem all that important, but its consequences are enormous.

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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