Bernie Sanders’ Road to Serfdom … And Corruption issuesinsights.com/2020/02/25/ber…
The result of his policies would be to strip Americans of many of the freedoms we currently enjoy in the name of “fairness,” while turning millions into wards of the state.
His policies would also explode the amount of corruption in this country, no matter how many new rules he tries to impose on lobbyists or how many free speech rights he takes away from campaign contributors.
If there’s one thing that should be clear to clean government zealots, it’s that the bigger the government, the greater the corruption.
You simply can’t have more spending without generating more lobbying, for the simple reason that the bigger the government, the bigger the return for lobbyists who win government favors.
Conversely, the more economic freedom a country enjoys, the less corruption exists.
Conversely, the more economic freedom a country enjoys, the less corruption exists.
“Economic freedom is a major deterrent to corruption,” says Alejandro Chafuen, who has been studying this relationship for decades.
“Based on the study results over the last 25 years, I feel confident concluding that leaders who fight corruption with more regulations rather than with true economic freedom are comparable to those who want to fight fires with gas: purposefully ignorant or willful accomplices.”
