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The Primary Reason For A Tariff Is That It Enables The Exploitation Of The Domestic Consumer By A Process Indistinguishable From Sheer Robbery.

Like All Predatory Or Parasitic Institutions, Its First Instinct Is That Of Self-preservation. All Its Enterprises Are Directed First Towards Preserving Its Own Life, And, Second, Towards Increasing Its Own Power And Enlarging The Scope Of Its Own Activity. For The Sake Of This It Will, And Regularly Does, Commit Any Crime Which Circumstances Make Expedient.

Assuming That Man Has A Distinct Spiritual Nature, A Soul, Why Should It Be Thought Unnatural That Under Appropriate Conditions Of Maladjustment, His Soul Might Die Before His Body Does; Or That His Soul Might Die Without His Knowing It?

By Consequence I Hold That No One Ever Did, Or Can Do, Anything For "society."... Comte Invented The Term Altruism As An Antonym For Egoism, And It Found Its Way At Once Into Everyone's Mouth, Although It Is Utterly Devoid Of Meaning, Since It Points To Nothing That Ever Existed In Mankind; This Hybrid Or Rather This Degenerate Form Of Hedonism Served Powerfully To Invest Collectivism's Principles With A Specious Moral Sanction, And Collectivists Naturally Made The Most Of It.

As Might Be Supposed, My Parents Were Quite Poor, But We Somehow Never Seemed To Lack Anything We Needed, And I Never Saw A Trace Of Discontent Or A Failure In Cheerfulness Over Their Lot In Life, As Indeed Over Anything.