(05-16-2016, 10:13 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The power of the corporate state will be around for a while longer yet.
Given that it took a hundred years to go from laissez faire to the statist monstrosity that we have now, I never implied that it would take place tomorrow. Think in terms of the decline of the Church in Europe about five hundred years ago. It was bankrupt both morally and fiscally and it and its clergy were looked upon with contempt. Much the way modern governments and their employees are now. It is unlikely that the state will remain the preeminent institution under those conditions in the long term.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises