The Most ImpOrtant Commodity

clipped from hotair.com One of the most persistent and dangerous illusions of socialism is the belief that money becomes magically virtuous when government handles it. Politicians are at least as greedy as any captain of industry. The installation of a politburo does not eliminate ambition from a society - it changes the means used to fulfill those ambitions. The political class achieves its desires through force, by definition. Unlike commerce, force produces no side benefits for the larger population - the politician and his constituents get what they want, at the expense of everyone else. The people Moore caricatures as cold-hearted fat cats don’t go away under a socialist government - what a silly, childish notion! The million-dollar marketplace of high-level transactions still exists, but now the most important commodity is political power.

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