“[The national debt] is not just unsustainable, foolish, and a sign of irresponsibility and poor national impulse control. It is theft from our children, and it is immoral. ... Big government is an easier choice than free enterprise. In the short run, it allows us to avoid sacrifice. ... [but] it will saddle our children and grandchildren with crushing debt.”
-- Arthur C. Brooks, The Road to Freedom
“Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? My generation and our predecessors, who either created or failed to stop the world-straddling engine of theft, degradation, manipulation, and social control we call the welfare state. ... The crisis of unfunded obligations is approaching. It won’t be pretty. ... While citizen is set against citizen and citizen against immigrant in a vast system of mutual plunder (and defense against plunder), bureaucracies extend their control and both create and nurture the political constituencies that sustain them.”
-- Tom G. Palmer, After the Welfare State
“Paradoxically, politicians
become more important, have more money to spend, and derive more ego rewards if
the economy is believed to work poorly. Bureaucrats may be expected to demand
larger budgets when contending with economic insecurity.”
-- Randy T. Simmons, Beyond Politics: the Roots of Government
Failure
“No government ever
voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never
disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life
we will ever see on this earth!" “Government will always find a need for whatever money it gets.”
“Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.”
– Ronald Reagan
“When you want to help people, you tell them the
truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
-- Thomas
Sowell
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