No Matter Whether It Is Their Intention

The Proposal Is Frequently Made That The Government Ought To Assume The Risks That Are "too Great For Private Industry." This Means That Bureaucrats Should Be Permitted To Take Risks With The Tax Payer's Money That No One Is Willing To Take With His Own.

When The Government Makes Loans Or Subsidies To Business, What It Does Is To Tax Successful Private Business In Order To Support Unsuccessful Private Business.

New Taxes Are So Unpopular That Most 'social' Handout Schemes Are Originally Enacted Without Enough Increased Taxation To Pay For Them. The Result Is Chronic Government Deficits, Paid For By The Issuance Of Additional Paper Money.

The Most Obvious And Yet The Oldest And Most Stubborn Error On Which The Appeal Of Inflation Rests Is That Of Confusing ‘money’ With ‘wealth’…real Wealth, Of Course, Consists In What Is Produced And Consumed: The Food We Eat, The Clothes We Wear, The Houses We Live In. It Is Railways And Roads And Motor Cars; Ships And Planes And Factories; Schools And Churches And Theaters; Pianos, Paintings And Books. Yet So Powerful Is The Verbal Ambiguity That Confuses Money With Wealth, That Even Those Who At Times Recognize The Confusion Will Slide Back Into It In The Course Of Their Reasoning.

A Day Never Passes Without Some Ardent Reformer Or Group Of Reformers Suggesting Some New Government Intervention, Some New Statist Scheme To Fill Some Alleged 'need' Or Relieve Some Alleged Distress.