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— Lionel Trilling"Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth."
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The welfare state is institutionalized crime - 'organized plunder,' as the French economist Frederic Bastiat called it. It systematizes what is intrinsically wrong: forcing some people to support others. The Democrats favor the indefinite expansion of the welfare state, perpetually increasing the ratio of force to freedom in society.
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Economists are very good at saying that something cannot go on forever, but not so good at saying when it will stop.
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