Loving my Business Law class, I really like this quote from our supplementary reading text The Law it is found in the forward: It is remarkable, in reading The Law, how perfectly accurate Bastiat was in describing the statists of his day which, it turns out, were not much different from the statists of today or any other day. The French socialists of Bastiars day espoused doctrines that perverted charity, education, and morals, for one thing. True charity does not begin with the robbery of taxation, he pointed out. Government schooling is inevitably an exercise in statist brainwashing, not genuine education; and it is hardly moral for a large gang (government) to (legally) rob one segment of the population, keep most of the loot, and share a little of it with various needy individuals (Bastiat vii). Bastiat was writing in the late 1840s.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:18:38 +0000
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