LewRockwell.Com
by Anthony Gregory

10/18/05

Not all economic statists are blind to the obvious government failures. They do not all deny that many state interventions into the market don’t help the people at large. Some maintain a different misconception. Sophisticated leftists (and right-populists) will usually diagnose the problem to be those perennial culprits behind every inequity and social woe: the dreaded 'private interests.' 'Private interests' corrupt public servants and turn them against the people. They buy off the officials at the Department of Agriculture, Food and Drug Administration and Environmental Protection Agency, bending the laws for their own private gain. They disrupt the regulation of savings and loans and make it scandalous. They lobby for corporate welfare and sham privatizations. Greedy and ubiquitous, these 'interests' keep interrupting the state in its pursuit of the common good. If it weren't for 'private interests,' the central plan would work...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp