The thesis of etatism that the members of the government and its assistants are more intelligent than the people, and that they know better what is good for the individual than he himself knows, is pure nonsense. The Führers and the Duces are neither God nor God’s vicars.
Ludwig von Mises explaining “statism” in Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War (1944).
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The government wants to make people think they can make life more simple. Too many, one is too many, have fallen for that idea.