The Government Has Nothing To Give To

When People Who Earn More Than The Average Have Their 'surplus', Or The Greater Part Of It, Seized From Them In Taxes, And When People Who Earn Less Than Average Have The Deficiency , Or The Greater Part Of It, Turned Over To Them In Hand-outs And Doles, The Production Of All Must Sharply Decline; For The Energetic And Able Who Lose Their Incentive To Produce More Than The Average, And The Slothful And Unskilled Lose Their Incentive To Improve Their Condition.

For Every Alleged Benefit That The Politicians Confer Upon Us, They Must Necessarily Deprive Us Of Something Else.

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.

Government Relief Tends Constantly To Get Out Of Hand. And Even When It Is Kept Within Reasonable Bounds It Tends To Reduce The Incentives To Work And To Save Both Of Those Who Receive It And Of Those Who Are Forced To Pay It. It May Be Said, In Fact, That Practically Every Measure That Governments Take With The Ostensible Object Of 'helping The Poor' Has The Long-run Effect Of Doing The Opposite.

No Matter Whether It Is Their Intention Or Not, Almost Anything That The Rich Can Legally Do Tends To Help The Poor. The Spending Of The Rich Gives Employment To The Poor. But The Saving Of The Rich, And Their Investment Of These Savings In The Means Of Production, Gives Just As Much Employment, And In Addition Makes That Employment Constantly More Productive And More Highly Paid, While It Also Constantly Increases And Cheapens The Production Of Necessities And Amenities For The Masses.