"The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today:consolidated and absolute, based on the unrestrained will of the majority, with force, threats, and intimidation being the order of the day." ~ Walter Williams
How Welfare States Make Us Less Civilized
Throughout history, the state has justified itself on the grounds that it is necessary to protect us from others whose habits and beliefs , we are meant to believe, are dangerous. For millennia, this fiction was easy to maintain because most people interacted so little with people outside their nearly autarkic, and therefore impoverished, communities.
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