The Mounting Burden Of Taxation Not Only

The Army Of Relief And Other Subsidy Recipients Will Continue To Grow, And The Solvency Of The Government Will Become Increasingly Un Tenable, As Long As Part Of The Population Can Vote To Force The Other Part To Support It.

Libertarians Are Learning To Their Sorrow That Big Businessmen Cannot Necessarily Be Relied Upon To Be Their Allies In The Battle Against Extension Of Governmental Encroachments.

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.

There Are Millions Receiving Government Payments Who Have Come To Consider Them As An Earned Right, Who Of Course Find Them Inadequate, And Who Are Outraged At The Slightest Suggestion Of A Critical Re-examination Of The Subject. The Political Pressure For Constant Extension And Increase Of These Benefits Is Almost Irresistible.

In Order That One Industry Might Grow Or Come Into Existence, A Hundred Other Industries Would Have To Shrink.