Re: more electoral defeats for the feudalists

Bob Kolker wrote:

Peter Bjørn Perlsø wrote:



That must been in the early years of Mises. :=)

From the standpoint that coercian is principally bad, it follows that
government is also bad.


Which gets us back to neccessary evil.

Anyone who things government is inhernetly good shold read the first five pages of -Common Sense- by Tom Paine.

Bob Kolker




It is not that government is inherently good - it is that not enough
government allows things that are inherently bad.

Nobody said it was easy.

--
Les Cargill
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