“Everything about socialism is sham and affectation.” - Economic Harmonies 23.11; Ch.23 Evil; Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
...Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole — with their common aim of legal plunder — constitute socialism.
...from...The Law...Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
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