Why Government Is the Problem (Essays in Public Policy Book 39)

by Milton Friedman

I say that there is a reverse invisible hand: People who intend to serve only the public interest are led by an invisible hand to serve private interests which was no part of their intention.

When those rates were adopted, they were on high-income people, but inflation made them applicable to low-income people." I believe that was an important effect of inflation on expanding government.

It was made popular by Robert Heinlein, a science fiction writer who wrote a wonderful novel called The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. The novel's setting is a settlement on the moon that revolts using the motto TAN STAAFL (There ain't no such thing as a free lunch). I may say that the revolution was a success because of a wonderful near-human computer.