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My Eastern New Mexico News column for September 1, 2024)
Government efficiency may sound like a worthy goal. To me, it sounds like the worst threat imaginable.
Historically, Germany's National Socialist government was efficient, as was Mussolini's fascist Italian government. Today, the Chinese communist government seems to be dangerously efficient. The US federal government, famous for its inefficiency, is still too efficient for comfort. Efficient government inevitably becomes too much government...
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“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
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The greater the efficiency, the greater the potential for tyranny.
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