In his column today, Thomas Sowell observes that we have to choose: do we want freedom, or do we want a procession of governmental programs aimed to creating utopia for us? Not that we’ll actually get to utopia, of course — just more and more regulations and mandates and taxes imposed by politicians who always have the very best of intentions.
The Founders tried to keep government power limited to avoid this. They understood that if politicians have a free hand, they’ll whittle away at our liberty until it’s just an empty slogan.
