Bastiat wrote this essay in 1850, but his words perfectly describe why our dysfunctional government run by politicians and bureaucrats is on the road to ruin. Socialism is the scourge of the world, and the ignorant masses want more of it. Liberty, freedom and free markets are no longer possible in a society controlled by narrow minded nincompoops who pass laws and inflict regulations on every inch of our society. Bastiat’s essay is one of the finest ever written and should be read by every high school student in America. But, since the government controls education, they would never allow it to be read.
The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish!
If this is true, it is a serious fact, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it.
This post was published at The Burning Platform on August 6, 2016.
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