It is easier to keep a reform alive when it is in place than removing an abusive legislation.
Category: Diffused costs
PRIVATE PROPERTY AND COMMON WEALTH.
Free of charge! Yes, for some of those who receive it, but not for those who pay out the money for it, if not to the teacher, at least to the tax collector.
EXCHANGE.
We should understand that value does not consist in the want or the obstacle or the effort, but in the satisfaction;
12. THE RIGHT TO WORK AND THE RIGHT TO PROFIT.
I was silly enough to choose a form of industry that leaves me with a loss of 10 percent.
IX. – THEFT BY SUBSIDY.
Dono tibi et concedo, Virtutem et puissantiam, Volandi, Pilandi, Derobandi, Filoutandi, Et escroquandi, Impunè per totam istam, Viam.
IV. – THE LOWER COUNCIL OF LABOR.
It is better to provide for oneself surrounded by prosperous customers than to be protected surrounded by impoverished ones.
Author’s Introduction to Economic Sophisms
Protection brings together in one single point all the good it does and distributes among the wider mass of people the harm it inflicts.