Collectivists who read this U.S. News excerpt of the new book, The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country, will likely reach the following conclusions: a) Big Oil is bad (like all “Big” business), and b) Republican politicians are corrupt.
I read the excerpt and reached a different conclusion: Government corruption is much less dangerous (not to mention much less likely) when society limits government to its proper role. Why did the federal government have anything to do with Teapot Dome in the first place?
