Thomas Sowell knocks yet another one out of the park by comparing slavery and big government. When we depend on achieving goals by legislative degree and use of government force, we forget what slaveowners learned all the way back in Rome; if you want something done that requires a degree of thinking, you don't do so by shaking a whip or pointing a gun at the person you want to do it. You do it with positive incentives.
Hopefully our nation remembers this before it is too late.
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The problem comes in the other way when people start thinking "not going to jail" or "not having to pay exorbitant fees" are positive incentives.
And once again I raise the question -- how do you know it isn't already too late? :-P
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