They also want to make his horse a consul. Well, not yet, but–led by neocons–they seek to build the presidential dictatorship as they have since Lincoln. And keep in mind that this contrived hysteria does not involve what Murray Rothbard called a cut-cuts, actual cuts, but rather a proposed cut in the proposed increase. No matter what, the State will spend more of our money next year than this for its domestic coercion and foreign murder. So why the wailing and gnashing of teeth? To propagandize for more taxes, more looting of the diminishing productive class for the benefit of the parasites. (Thanks to Floy Lilley)

The Best of Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.