Quotation of the Day…

(Don Boudreaux)

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… is from page 149 of Thomas Sowell’s magnificent 1995 book, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy:

Yet, increasingly, government has come to be seen as a way of benefitting particular groups adopted as mascots, often without much regard for what that does to other groups or to the integrity of the system as a whole.