The Trouble With Government Regulation Of The

From Each As They Choose, To Each As They Are Chosen.

The Illegitimate Use Of A State By Economic Interests For Their Own Ends Is Based Upon A Preexisting Illegitimate Power Of The State To Enrich Some Persons At The Expense Of Others. Eliminate That Illegitimate Power Of Giving Differential Economic Benefits And You Eliminate Or Drastically Restrict The Motive For Wanting Political Influence.

It Goes Without Saying That Any Persons May Attempt To Unite Kindred Spirits, But, Whatever Their Hopes And Longings, None Have The Right To Impose Their Vision Of Unity Upon The Rest.

Whoever Makes Something Having Bought Or Contracted For All Other Held Resources Used In The Process (transferring Some Of His Holdings For These Cooperating Factors), Is Entitled To It. The Situation Is Not One Of Something's Getting Made, And There Being An Open Question Of Who Is To Get It. Things Come Into The World Already Attached To People Having Entitlements Over Them.

Given The Complexity Of Interpersonal Relationships And Institutions And The Complexity Of Co-ordination Of The Actions Of Many People, It Is Enormously Unlikely That, Even If There Were One Ideal Pattern For Society, It Could Be Arrived At In An A Priori Fashion. And Even Supposing That Some Great Genius Did Come Along With A Blueprint, Who Could Have The Confidence That It Could Work