Saturday, December 11, 2010

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NON-ESSENTIAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES IN THE ST. CROIX DISTRICT ONLY TO BE DISMISSED AT 2 PM

Talk about tautology! Aren’t all government employees non-essential? As any good Austrian economist will tell you: if there’s a demand for a service or a good, the market will provide it.

Non-essential is putting it kindly. I don’t willingly pay politicians to bring democracy to Iraq, for TSA goons to probe my genitals, or for cops to harass prostitutes, marijuana smokers and 19 year-old beer drinkers. None of these services (such as they are) do anything for me. On the contrary! But pay for these services I do, as I know resistance entails risk of great bodily harm up to and including death. That's how protection rackets work.

Market failure is a myth. To the extent government employees provide an essential service, the market can provide it more efficiently. To the extent government employees provide war, empire, surveillance, wealth redistribution, corporate bailouts, central-bank counterfeiting and assorted other "public services," they aren’t merely non-essential. They’re disruptive to the social order.

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