Economic Freedom: “[E]conomic prosperity comes and goes as adherence to the principles of economic freedom comes and goes.” – John Taylor (First Principles)
And this is because we elect those that promise much that Government will do for them while never saying that the tradoff is the reduction in Freedom for how you can participate in the Marketplace. Who makes the decision: you or the central planners? It all depends on your vetting of candidates and voting for those that prize YOUR Freedom over Government control.
To a large degree, the modern political process can be viewed as a series of “exchanges” between coalitions and politicians. Concentrated interest groups provide votes, financial contributions, high-paying jobs in the future, and other forms of support in exchange for subsidies, spending programs, and regulatory favors often financed by taxpayers. The rational ignorance effect – the fact that voters choose not to spend the time required to be well-informed – facilitates this process because a lot can happen in the halls of Congress of which voters are unaware. As a result, resources are moved toward lobbying and other favor-seeking activities and away from production and development of better products.
-James D. Gwartney, Richard L. Stroup, Dwight R. Lee, Tawni H. Ferrarini, and Joseph P. Calhoun (Common Sense Economics)
And ending with the “Selling The Rope By Which Anti-Capitalists Will Hang Them.”:
When the history of corporate America is written, one of its most shameful chapters will be about how big business sold out to political correctness, by inflicting the harangues of “diversity consultants” on their employees and donating their stockholders’ money to advocacy groups opposed to the free market on which their own existence depends.
-Prof. Thomas Sowell (Barbarians Inside the Gates)
Like to BLM and the Transgender groups whose purposes are to overthrow our Capitalistic system or to so regulate it that it is no longer free.
