Unintended Consequences by John Ross, 1996 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
When Government tries to steer the economy, unintended consequences happen because individuals don’t act the same after Government steering as they did before. The only way central planners have a chance to make their plans work is if people are made to act the way planners want. The only way to make people obey is to have a totalitarian state which can enforce the rules of the central planners. Even though our individual freedoms have been slowly taken away over the last fifty years, enough of a free market remains allowing us to make enough individual decisions, which ultimately thwarts the plans of the planners. Each of us (more…)
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