[tumblindice]

http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/tag/broken-window-hypothesis
The `broken window’ theory in practice. People will ignore it and respect for the rule of law generally will be further eroded, like our immigration laws and economic common sense in recent years.
Way to go critters. Another `F’ grade for Congress.

[TigersEye]

The basic idea is that an environment in which minor crimes are ignored or tolerated is liable to become one in which more substantial criminality also thrives, ...

Today we face the opposite and IMO the consequences will be even worse. We have major laws and the Constitution itself being ignored and violated by the highest offices in the land. You say my gun has an illegal cosmetic feature? I say "I'm not shipping crates of guns to ultra-violent drug cartels in Mexico."

[Texas Fossil]

“That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen.”

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15962/15962-h/15962-h.htm

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Bastiat clearly understood before 1874 the consequences of socialism and part of that was the “Broken Window” concept.