Kathy Sullivan Channels Adam Smith? - Granite Grok

Kathy Sullivan Channels Adam Smith?

Kathy Sullivan channels Adam Smith (?) in John DiStaso’s Granite Status…(In regard to the Casino Bill Vote)

“But what amazed me is the lack of willingness (by opponents of both parties) to recognize the amount of gambling we already have in New Hampshire, with all of the under-regulated charitable gaming, and it continues to grow and grow,” Sullivan said.

“It’s as if they don’t see it, but it’s there.”

The key phrases here are “under-regulated” and “continues to grow and grow.”

If Sullivan’s intellectual agility were not chained to the statist dogma of the Democrat party she might have been able to reach the obvious conclusion that if you under regulate “it,” “it” is almost guaranteed to grow and grow, and that includes employment, wages, wealth creation, opportunity, self-reliance,  charity, and even tax revenue; while costs and prices are not-so-mysteriously driven inexorably down by growing choice and competition.

And I think, Kathy, that more than a few Republicans, at least, recognize that the problem isn’t gambling so much as it is over-regulated State managed and sponsored “Gambling Lobby-gambling,” and the desire to rely on it as a crutch to expand dependency among the populace and among budget writers in the legislature (and the governors office.).  Gambling that would probably wipe out the charitable variety and the charities that rely on it to do all kinds of under-regulated good deeds within their communities.

It might be wise for those members of the Democrat Caucus who oppose gambling, but–as you point out–would approve of a broad based tax structure, unchain themselves from their moral contradictions and see that the things in human nature that drive them to oppose gambling should also drive them to oppose their addiction to a statist monopoly upon whose reliance is perhaps the biggest gamble of all.

A small, unobtrusive government, that manages as little as possible, with as little of other peoples earnings as possible, frees those people to engage in a broader range of things that appeal to them instead of a sliver of politicians and bureaucrats who really do not know what is best for everyone.  So enabled the people create opportunity where it is needed and reward those who provide it to their satisfaction.  And they invariably solve their own social ills–real ones not the politicized manifold of constant crisis promulgated by the professional left–without the interference of those who insist that the only solution to any problem must first and almost always run though the State capital.

 

 

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