Of course it doesn’t. We all heard as children that the reason we need government is to avoid the anarchy of, say, a world without stop lights. But now some cities are rethinking the placement of red light cameras, because they deter people from running red lights, and thus reduce traffic tickets and, accordingly, ticket revenue.
Think about that for a moment. Government would rather fleece its taxpayers for more money, for violating traffic signals, than it would stand a world where no one ran red lights at all. This is what you need to know about the state: It wants us to break laws, including the few laws with some reason behind them. The more lawbreakers, the more fines, the more cops, the more jails, the more the state grows. Government is not there to keep social order
