Violence Breeds Violence

The more of it we practice, the more of it will we ration alize as justified - even "needed." Just as a poke on the jaw provokes a retaliatory poke on the jaw, so does a subsidy to one industry or to one community evoke the sentiment: "We must have a subsidy in order to get our share of what we are paying in." Subsidies are among the numerous institutions based on violence. If one would appreciate the extent to which the principle of violence is in effect, let him imagine the subsidies and the "social gains" that would be paid for, and the services of the state that could be rendered, if all of these were put on a shelf, as in a grocery store, and bought only as the citizens 22 of these United States would buy them - voluntarily. With the disappearance of the myth that someone else is footing the bill, which this serve-yourself plan would as sure, what a whale of a difference there would be in the scope and cost of government!