"The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves in their separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere. The desirable things which the individuals of a people can not do, or can not well do, for themselves, fall into two classes: those which have relation to wrongs, and those which have not. Each of these branch off into an infinite variety of subdivisions. The first that in relation to wrongs embraces all crimes, misdemeanors, and nonperformance of contracts. The other embraces all which, in its nature, and without wrong, requires combined action, as public roads and highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, estates of the deceased, and the machinery of government itself."
-- President Abraham Lincoln
2 comments:
Maybe you guys are just stuck in your endless hamster wheel of writing convincing arguments that don't convince. Maybe you need a little polishing of your communication skills. Try this very insightful technical paper. It's only 30pp:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID2245110_code647786.pdf?abstractid=2230996&mirid=1
Little Rand didn't remind folks at Howard of this aspect of the founder of the Republican Party, now did he.
Post a Comment