Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Government jobs are not an addition to the country's payroll; they are an increase in the nation's payload. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The military works like government; is financed like government, and sports the same inherent malignancies and perverse incentives of government, down to… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Demonstrators for a government takeover of medicine have a right to discuss their demands, but no right to enact these demands. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Antitrust laws ought to be deployed, not against business, but to bust this two-party monopoly, which subverts competition in government and rewards… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The Little Guy, behind whom politicians strategically coalesce — thumping majorities prevail in a democracy — cannot abide by a reality in… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
'You didn't build that' will be Obama's political epitaph: With these remarks, Obama has come out of the closet as a most… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
In a free society, the “vision thing” is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
If the Bill of Rights was intended to place strict limits on federal power and protect individual and locality from the national… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
But public works, economic protectionism, cheap money, "deficit-financed government spending," and "the animal spirits of the spendthrift in the service of boosting… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words,… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Because of the oil-and-water relationship governments have cultivated between ethics and political economy, speaking in plain terms - spelling it out as… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
...the West has its share of liars and poseurs, the ablest of whom congregate in government. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Adding an overarching tier of tyrants - the EU - to European governments has benefited Europeans as a second hangman enhances the… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
If women with the same skills as men were getting only 78 cents for every dollar a man earns, men would have long-since priced… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Liberals can always be trusted to see God in Mumia Abu-Jamal and the devil in the Pope. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Christianity in our country is a lot like what the Ducksters profess. No longer doctrinaire or demanding, the mishmash of pop-religion practiced in churches… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Breaking into a country signals quite reliably a willingness to break yet more of the invaded country's laws. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The end result of positively reinforcing bad behavior is that you get more of it. The culmination of a failure to punish predators is… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Demonstrators for a government takeover of medicine have a right to discuss their demands, but no right to enact these demands. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The Big-Media collective, however, is slow, stupid and shackled by ideology. Reality must bite them before they’ll recognize it, much less report it. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The only time Republicans will shake fists and point fingers is over a war delayed, one that isn't led by the US, or a… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
![“In a free society, the “vision thing” is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free people understand that a “visionary” bureaucrat is a voracious one and that the grander the government [...] the poorer and less free the people.” quote by Ilana Mercer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e21/ilana-mercer-6995_bureaucrats_in-a-free-society-the-vision-thing-is-le_2641564.jpg)
