http://www.thefreemanonline.org/anything-peaceful/no-more-czars-please/ Ideas on Liberty Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:08:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/anything-peaceful/no-more-czars-please/comment-page-1/#comment-21581 Kevin Carson Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:59:41 +0000 http://www.feeblog.org/?p=326#comment-21581 R.A. Wilson got it right when he referred to our "Tsarist-Occupied Government." R.A. Wilson got it right when he referred to our “Tsarist-Occupied Government.”

]]> http://www.thefreemanonline.org/anything-peaceful/no-more-czars-please/comment-page-1/#comment-21580 Carl Clegg Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:04:30 +0000 http://www.feeblog.org/?p=326#comment-21580 The current American proclivity for czars and czardom is rooted in the Keynesian collectivist attitude that our current problems are so big that only central planners with access to tax dollars and with the power of the state could possibly effectuate change that would alleviate the pain caused by the alleged excesses of the markets and people making bad choices. Friedrich Hayek had a few things to say about czardom in his book "The Road to Serfdom" where he clearly taught that such theories lead to totalitarian abuse, that temporary programs setup by the government become permanent, and that government intervention stifles the natural movement of the market and frustrates the power of individuals to interact freely. So I concur with Lawrence Reed: "Give us no more czars!" The current American proclivity for czars and czardom is rooted in the Keynesian collectivist attitude that our current problems are so big that only central planners with access to tax dollars and with the power of the state could possibly effectuate change that would alleviate the pain caused by the alleged excesses of the markets and people making bad choices. Friedrich Hayek had a few things to say about czardom in his book “The Road to Serfdom” where he clearly taught that such theories lead to totalitarian abuse, that temporary programs setup by the government become permanent, and that government intervention stifles the natural movement of the market and frustrates the power of individuals to interact freely. So I concur with Lawrence Reed: “Give us no more czars!”

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