Most seem unfamiliar with it, especially the crowd currently in command. As long as you can go and vote every two years, they seem to think that’s liberty enough.
I bring that up in the context of the great debate over “reform” of our health care system. As Mark Steyn observes in this hard-hitting piece, how much “the nation” spends on health care is irrelevant. “The nation” doesn’t spend anything; individuals do when they make health care decisions. The question is whether individuals will be allowed to keep making those decisions, or will we have government functionaries making them for us?
Steyn is absolutely right. This is a philosophical battle pitting the statists who are infatuated with the supposed fairness and efficiency of government control against those of us who prefer freedom, distrust the government, or both.
