These are not refugees anymore, these are really prisoners of war, grouped together by the hundreds in small towns that offer them no ressources.
Category: Unintended consequences
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
They dread the light because their actions are not pure.
SIXTH SPEECH
What is a privilege to some is a servitude to others.
THE SLIDING SCALE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
Fixing the price of wheat through legislation is deceptive and dire towards all interested parties, mainly towards those who are supposed to be helped by it.
ABOUT THEORIES
Using the excuse of supporting the wages of the workers, you are supporting your own profits.
LETTERS TO MR. FELIX COUDROY
How on earth should we fight against a school that has the power in its hand and promises perfect happiness to everybody?
PRODUCER AND CONSUMER
It behooves the one who seeks the satisfaction to determine whether it is respectable, moral, reasonable, beneficial. The responsibility rests with him.
COMPETITION.
To harm others is to harm ourselves; to spread obstacles, tariffs, coalitions, or wars along the path of others is to obstruct our own progress.
SPEECH ON THE TAX ON WINES AND SPIRITS
It is the law that causes people to dig up vines on the hill slopes and plant them in the flat fields to avoid the vexations of indirect taxation.
JUSTICE AND FRATERNITY
The people will be crushed by taxes, and loan upon loan will be taken out. Once the present has been exhausted, the future will be devoured.
WHAT IS SEEN AND WHAT IS NOT SEEN, OR POLITICAL ECONOMY IN ONE LESSON.
Often, the sweeter the first fruit of a habit, the more bitter are those that follow.
23. – CIRCULARS FROM A GOVERNMENT THAT IS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND.
Obviously any civil servant who does not do a useful job does a damaging one by the very fact of taking action.
XII. – SALT, THE MAIL, AND THE CUSTOMS SERVICE.
The affections, feelings, and outpourings of love and friendship will not, as they are today, be buried in the depths of people’s hearts by the hand of the tax man.