“Adding an overarching tier of tyrants - the EU - to European governments has benefited Europeans as a second hangman enhances the health of a condemned man.” MenGovernmentTyrantsHangman Author:Ilana Mercer
“'You didn't build that' will be Obama's political epitaph: With these remarks, Obama has come out of the closet as a most odious collectivist, who believes religiously that government predation is a condition for production. Or, put simply, that the parasite created the host.” BelieveGovernmentPoliticalConditionsProductionsHostClosetsRemarksEpitaphParasites Author:Ilana Mercer
“The military works like government; is financed like government, and sports the same inherent malignancies and perverse incentives of government, down to the racial-spoils system.” GovernmentSportsMilitaryInherentIncentivesSpoilMalignancy Author:Ilana Mercer
“Demonstrators for a government takeover of medicine have a right to discuss their demands, but no right to enact these demands.” GovernmentActionFatherRightsEconomicDemandClaimsMedicineGoodsFoundingOur Founding FathersTakeoversGovernment Takeover Author:Ilana Mercer
“Ron Paul would have demanded that entire departments be shuttered – not that the bums merely bring into balance what was stolen (taxes) with what is squandered (spending). Besides, what a balanced-budget requirement implies is that government has the constitutional right to spend as much as it takes in – that government is permitted to waste however much revenue it can extract from wealth producers.” GovernmentWealthBalanceTaxesWasteSpendingProducersBudgetsBalancedRequirementsStolenRevenueBalanced Budget Author:Ilana Mercer
“Antitrust laws ought to be deployed, not against business, but to bust this two-party monopoly, which subverts competition in government and rewards the colluding quislings with sinecures in perpetuity.” TwoGovernmentLawPartyOughtCompetitionRewardsMonopolyAntitrustAntitrust Laws Author:Ilana Mercer
“By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words, they pay taxes out of money confiscated from taxpayers, who, in turn, pay taxes twice: on their own income and on the income of members of the bureaucracy. At the very least, this should disqualify state workers from voting.” IfsShouldStatesGovernmentTurnsPayHonestTaxesMembersStandardsPaidWorkersIncomeVotingBureaucracyTaxpayersAccountingUnorthodoxGovernment Workers Author:Ilana Mercer
“Government commissions are where accountability goes to die.” GovernmentDiesAccountability Author:Ilana Mercer
“Government jobs are not an addition to the country's payroll; they are an increase in the nation's payload.” CountryGovernmentJobsNationsIncreasePayrollGovernment Jobs Author:Ilana Mercer
“But public works, economic protectionism, cheap money, "deficit-financed government spending," and "the animal spirits of the spendthrift in the service of boosting "consumption demand"... Doesn't Keynesianism simply appeal to the worst in human nature?” HumansGovernmentSpiritAnimalEconomicWorstHuman NatureDemandSpendingAppealsConsumptionDeficitGovernment SpendingProtectionismSpendthriftAnimal SpiritsKeynesianism Author:Ilana Mercer
“The nice men in periwigs who came up with the Fourth Amendment were recklessly naive to imagine that branches of a government, each of whose power is enhanced when the power of the other branches grows, would serve to check one another.” MenGovernmentGrowsNiceImagineChecksBranchesAmendmentsFourthImagine ThatNaiveFourth AmendmentNice Man Author:Ilana Mercer
“In a free society, the “vision thing” is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free people understand that a “visionary” bureaucrat is a voracious one and that the grander the government [...] the poorer and less free the people.” PeopleGovernmentIndividualLeftVisionServantVisionariesFree SocietyBureaucratsLeashesCivil Servants Author:Ilana Mercer
“If the Bill of Rights was intended to place strict limits on federal power and protect individual and locality from the national government the 14th Amendment effectively defeated that purpose by placing the power to enforce the Bill of Rights in federal hands, where it was never intended to be.” IfsHandsGovernmentPurposeIndividualRightsProtectLimitsBillsAmendmentsDefeatedStrictBill Of RightsLocality14th Amendment Author:Ilana Mercer
“Because of the oil-and-water relationship governments have cultivated between ethics and political economy, speaking in plain terms - spelling it out as it is - as become foreign to the public. So here goes: When government sports a surplus, this implies that the political pickpockets have stolen more funds than they can possibly dream of spending. The property is not theirs to keep! Conversely, when deficits are reported, this means that the kleptomaniacs have not been able to steal sufficient funds to cover their profligacy.” MeanDreamGovernmentAblePoliticalPoliticsSportsTermWaterEconomyEthicsPropertySpendingOilStealingSufficientFundStolenDeficitSpellingSurplusPolitical EconomyOil And Water Author:Ilana Mercer
“...the West has its share of liars and poseurs, the ablest of whom congregate in government.” GovernmentShareWestLiars Author:Ilana Mercer
