“Governments and the military purport to protect the public from enemies, and if there were no enemies they would have to invent some, for the simple purpose of rationalizing their existence.” IfsGovernmentPurposeSimpleExistenceEnemyMilitaryProtectAnarchy Book:Selected essays Source: Selected essays
“The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money and idea patents, erecting tariff barriers to protect monopolies from foreign competition, and taxing laborers to subsidize rich farmers and privileged manufacturers. Then we create "social workers, " etc., to care for them and thereby establish a self-aggravating and permanent institutionalized phenomenon.” PeopleFirstsIdeasSelfGovernmentCareSocialRichLandProtectCompetitionWorkersPermanentWelfareEtcBarriersPhenomenonFarmersAnarchyPrivilegedSectionsMonopolySuperfluousPatentsSocial WorkerLaborersTariffsAggravatingHealth Education Book:Selected essays Source: Selected essays