The NH legislature crafted a scheme to force power companies to buy energy from biomass plants. To “save jobs.” But Biomass plants are closing. Jobs lost. Why? Busy-body legislators.
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Humans Are Stupid – Just ask a Legislator
Humans are stupid. Just ask a legislator. The more progressive the legislator, the dumber you are. We know this to be true because of the things they try to legislate. That would be “every” thing. You are simply not bright enough to manage much if anything without their aid or influence.
Ironically, the cure for this human stupidity is to convince a majority of the aforementioned dolts to elect you to a public office. The more progressive the legislator the smarter and more sophisticated your transformation.
Notable Quote: Frederic Bastiat on Liberty
God has implanted in mankind also all that is necessary to enable it to accomplish its destinies…Away, then, with quacks and organizers! … Away with their artificial methods! Away with their social laboratories, their governmental whims, their centralization, their tariffs, their universities, their State religion, their inflationary or monopolizing banks, their limitations, their restrictions, their … Read more
Notable Quotes: Frederic Bastiat
[There] “is this idea that mankind is merely inert matter, receiving life, organization, morality, and prosperity from the power of the state. And even worse, it will be stated that mankind tends toward degeneration, and is stopped from this downward course only by the mysterious hand of the legislator.
-Frédéric Bastiat
For Barack ‘You Didn’t Build That’ Obama and Elizabeth Warren – and just about every Democrat…
“Life, faculties, production—in other words, individuality, liberty, property—this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”
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The Law Can Never Be Philanthropic
The law (justice) can never be philanthropic. It cannot guarantee property of any kind to anyone because the law has no property to give. The law does not create property. The Law does not summon property out of thin air-where none previously existed. The Law can only take from someone else what is theirs.
It therefore behooves those charged with writing and managing the law (and more importantly those who elect or appoint the stewards) to ensure that philanthropy is not the foundation of the States interest. The only way to fulfill that interest is through the progressive accumulation of other people’s property under the cover of legalized plunder. The only way for the law to be philanthropic is to legalize theft.