We have thousands of laws that are contrary to liberty and nature enforced by bureaucrats
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The country is dying from a slow death by a thousand cuts.
It's millions of cuts administered by hundreds of thousands of little kings.
Much of urban poverty, particularly among blacks, is the result of local, county and state licensing, permitting and zoning ordinances. It's the same in health care, education, etc. They imposition of legal monopolies kills entrepreneurship and redirects risk to bad behaviors.