Frederic Bastiat wrote (and I paraphrase - he wrote it in French, anyway).
The state is that institution by means of which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.
He is considered to have been an economist, in retrospect. Whatever he was, he was great (veneration!).
Lol two Bastiat references in the same post on the Internet, a first in history:)
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Frederic Bastiat wrote (and I paraphrase - he wrote it in French, anyway).
The state is that institution by means of which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.
He is considered to have been an economist, in retrospect. Whatever he was, he was great (veneration!).
Lol two Bastiat references in the same post on the Internet, a first in history:)