The Essential Function Of The State Is

Government Provided Free Tuition Tends More And More To Produce A Uniform Conformist Education, With College Faculties Ultimately Dependent For Their Jobs On The Government, And So Developing An Economic Interest In Profession And Teaching A Statist, Pro-government, And Socialist Ideology.

The First (lesson) Which We Meet Again And Again In History, Is That Once The Dole Or Similar Relief Programs Are Introduced, They Seem Almost Inevitably - Unless Surrounded By The Most Rigid Restrictions - To Get Out Of Hand. The Second Lesson Is That Once This Happens The Poor Become More Numerous And Worse Off Than They Were Before, Not Only Because They Have Lost Self-reliance, But Because The Sources Of Wealth And Production On Which They Depend For Either Doles Or Jobs Are Diminished Or Destroyed.

What Is Put Into The Hands Of B Cannot Be Put Into The Hands Of A.

The Envious Are More Likely To Be Mollified By Seeing Others Deprived Of Some Advantage Than By Gaining It For Themselves. It Is Not What They Lack That Chiefly Troubles Them, But What Others Have.

When Your Money Is Taken By A Thief, You Get Nothing In Return. When Your Money Is Taken Through Taxes To Support Needless Bureaucrats, Precisely The Same Situation Exists. We Are Lucky, Indeed, If The Needless Bureaucrats Are Mere Easy-going Loafers. They Are More Likely Today To Be Energetic Reformers Busily Discouraging And Disrupting Production.