We are all making some similar request to the Government; but Government cannot satisfy one party without adding to the labor of the others. Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. Every one is, more or less, for profiting by the labors of others. No one would dare to express such a sentiment; he even hides it from himself. A medium is thought of; Government is applied to, and every class in its turn comes and says, "You, who can take justifiably and honestly, take from the public, and we will partake." Which is why I think I prefer the Articles of Confederation, and the anti-federalists, as opposed to the consitution pushed for in the Publius letters by Hamilton, Madison and Jay. The anti-federalists weren't so far wrong when they charged the proposed system of having the possibility of becoming nationally consolidated.
Jay's condemnation of the AOC don't do justice to their achievements.
The trend seems to be always from a union
of sovereign states to a federal superstate.
It may be that this is another facet of democracy's
core weakness; when the citizens realize
they hold the keys to the treasury, they will
empty it. And when they have emptied it,
they will endeavor to get more from the other
states.
The only way to do this, short of
warfare, is to create an overarching entity
suitable for raiding from the productive
in the name of justice. That we allow
ourselves to be robbed because it is
the moral thing to do is inefficient.
Wages of the superbureaucracy
we hire to rob ourselves amount
to more than we actually redistribute.