David Boaz Quote

"Power always corrupts, and the power of government to tell people how to live their lives or to transfer money from those who earn it to others is always a temptation to corruption. Taxes and regulations reduce people’s incentive to produce wealth, and government transfer programs reduce people’s incentive to work, to save, and to help family and friends in case of sickness, disability, or retirement. ...[I]t is nonetheless clear that government enterprises are less efficient, less innovative, and more wasteful than private firms.... [C]ompare what it’s like to call American Express versus the IRS to correct problems. Or compare a private apartment building with public housing."

by:	David Boaz (1953-) Author, executive vice president of the Cato Institute
Source:	LIBERTARIANISM, A PRIMER, p. 13 (The Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, 1997).
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Categories:	Corruption, Government, IRS, Power, Production, Regulation, Taxation, Usurpation, Wealth
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The comparisons are almost endless. The Union Socialists of Amerika (USA) is as corrupt a body religious / politic as has ever existed.  -- Mike, Norwalk
Immediately sensible. How can a Leviathan Government run by lazy, incompetent, unionized, work to rule, collectivist, entrenched bureaucracy even begin to compete with focused private initiative? The answer is simple...It can't!  -- J Carlton, Calgary
-- Lilkidmom, Niles, MI
Like Mark Livine, I agree with everything the Cato institute says about economics.  -- cal, lewisville, tx
A good example of the above is the U S Post Office. If the government would get out of the mail business and let UPS have it, the mail delivery would be twice as effecient at about half the cost.  -- jim k, Austin,Tx
-- Anonymous, Reston, VA, US
I agree. I want to choose who I help be it family or friend. I do not want to be told I have to help someone who won't help them self but want to live off of others or the government. I believe the term most descriptive of these people are Parasites. They are the ones who buy a new car and live in a shack or have a big screen TV but no food or insurance because they want you the taxpayer to give the money to the government to give to them for the more  -- Elaine, Atlanta
Absolute truth!  -- Jim K., Phoenix, AZ
-- Abigail, Newport
And my grandson asked.."Papa, what was it like when you were young." Son, we were much more free. The people were not brainwashed, we worked hard, the government did not tell us every move to make, and we ran our own lives." And the world was much smaller. Hurry 2012, Liberty or death, civil war or peace. we will see.  -- Kimo, Lahaina
Total balderdash.  -- dick, fort worth

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