Government has a benefit, at least if you are a government supremacist. One policy will create multiple problems that statists can use to justify more government and more policies which create more problems leading to more policies etc. ad infinitum, making an eternal positive feedback loop.
Because it's a web of connections, every part links to multiple other parts.
Just to give you an idea of how this works—
Prohibition creates crime and huge profits for cartels, which empowers (and employs) legislation enforcers, and creates incentives to get drugs to customers living under prohibition which lets government supremacists claim justification for more "border" control in the name of fighting crime which is created by prohibition. Who benefits from prohibition? Not you or me.
Need more?
Handouts create dependency which creates a bigger demand for handouts. Handouts create incentives for people from other lands to want to come here, which makes people want unconstitutional "secure borders" to prevent people from coming here, which is exactly what "coyotes" need for their business model, and since prohibition has artificially inflated the price of drugs, they do a little lucrative drug smuggling too.
Still not convinced?
Anti-gun rules cause crime which causes dishonest or stupid people to scream for more anti-gun rules, which will cause more crime, etc. We already know the solution to crime: defense of life, liberty, and property. Government doesn't want crime solved because this wouldn't benefit them.
And even all those "different" topics are connected in various ways. More and more examples could be shown, all leading to the same place.
Government causes problems that government supremacists insist can only be solved by more government, which will only create more problems, and the cycle spins out of control with society and liberty sacrificed on the altar to The State.
Don't be part of the problem; be part of the real solution.
It is a phenomenon that Ludwig von Mises pointed out in economics: one Government Intervention (say a price control) creates inevitable problems, but instead of repealing the intervention, the Government usually adds more wide-ranging interventions, creating more and bigger problems.
ReplyDeleteAny sensible person would recognize that as a flaw in the system. Crooks see it as an opportunity.
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