Economics professor Sandy Ikeda hits the nail on the head with his Freeman piece today.
Every passage in the piece is eminently quotable, but here’s perhaps the best: “Governments equate order with control. They view society not as what happens when people freely follow their own plans, but as a machine they must consciously direct, maintain, and occasionally overhaul, lest the cogs freeze up and the wheels stop turning. For them, society cannot order itself but must be deliberately ordered by law — the law and order of a police state.”
The killing of Eric Garner for illegally selling loose cigarettes, the damage done to all the Americans who have lost their health plans due to Obamacare, the damage to individuals who have had property seized under civil asset forfeiture, and so on — it all stems from the same cause, namely a government that no longer protects people but menaces them.
