Jun 17
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From the Groniad via Peter:
Richard Sennett: “The job of the state is to make sure that everyone has enough to eat, can get medical care when they need it, can get to work without risk”.
No Richard, the job of the state is to get the hell out of the way so that honest, hard-working citizens can get on with their lives and enjoy the fruits of their labour without the state taking half (or more) their income. They deserve to live in a state where criminals are jailed but the rest of society is not penalised for the behaviour of a small number of cretins.
Statism only serves one purpose; to increase the size of the state by increasing the number of regulations strangling the economy and stealing as much taxpayers money as possible.
In short: Statism Sucks!
