“From the Anarchist standpoint, these artificial hindrances which are the cause of three main forms of usury-interest, profit, and rent, are, in the order of their importance, monopoly in the control of the circulating medium-money and credit, private property in land not based on occupancy and use, patent rights and copyrights, and tariffs.” UseFormOrderThreeCausesInterestRightsLandImportancePropertyProfitCreditMediumsArtificialMonopolyAnarchistStandpointPrivate PropertyPatentsCopyrightHindranceTariffsUsury 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