The Welfare State Neutralizes Potential Opponents by Making Them Dependent on Government Benefits »
Robert Higgs | Friday November 25, 2011 at 9:43 PM PDT | 6 Comments
From time immemorial—from Etienne de la Boitie to David Hume to Ludwig von Mises—political analysts have noted that because the number of those in the ruling elite amounts to only a small fraction of the number in the ruled masses, every regime lives or dies in accordance with “public opinion.” Unless the mass of the people,...
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