The Right to Vote . . .
January 9, 2014
. . . in today’s world means nothing more than the right to vote yourself someone else’s income. The constitutional functions of government, as opposed to the income transfer functions of government, were pretty much covered during the Washington administration. The American state has long been almost exclusively one big political casino. So when we are told that “we” are sending soldiers and bombs to places like Iraq “so that the people there have the right to vote,” “we” are giving those people yet another reason to hate Americans.
Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo [send him mail] is a former professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland and a longtime member of the senior faculty of the Mises Institute. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books including The Real Lincoln; How Capitalism Saved America; Lincoln Unmasked; Hamilton's Curse; Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government; The Problem with Socialism; and The Politically-Incorrect Guide to Economics.
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