Rick Lowe
If you're a frequent visitor to this blog you will know that one of my pet peeves is that The Bahamas Government is far too big and costs the taxpayer far too much, but as George Leef points out in the following article from 1997 for The Freeman, there are other problems associated with "big government".
What's So Bad about Big Government Anyway?
Besides the coercion and social harm?"In a recent conversation I used the term “big government,” clearly in a pejorative way. Another person spoke up to challenge me, asking, “What’s so bad about big government?” He went on to name some benefits that he supposed were possible only with a powerful state. We debated whether it was true, for example, that you couldn’t have old-age security without a government system like Social Security, but afterwards I wished that I’d had a more thorough answer to his question prepared.
"Since then, I have thought about this question and have boiled the answer down to five points. But before we get to those points, we first need to have a good idea of just what we mean by “big government.”
