“The federal budget suggests that just over 20 percent of what the national government does involves the provision of public goods, and the rest involves taking from A and giving to B because politicians want it that way. This isn’t necessarily wicked or nefarious—politicians like Social Security in part because they genuinely care about the welfare of old people, and people voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) because they sincerely believed that it would provide relief to the uninsured and others struggling with medical expenses. Being wrong isn’t the same as being evil; it’s just being wrong.

The political model is constrained in what it can actually accomplish by the knowledge problem discussed above, and our theories of legitimacy and consent mainly serve to mask the substitution of violence for knowledge.”

Excerpt From: Kevin D. Williamson. “The End Is Near and It’s Going to Be Awesome.” HarperCollins, 2013-05-01. iBooks.

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