{"id":11645,"date":"2010-03-24T06:48:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T13:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11645"},"modified":"2010-06-26T07:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T14:58:00","slug":"historian-robert-higgs-citizen-be-careful-what-you-wish-for-the-government-just-might-give-it-to-you-good-and-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11645\/historian-robert-higgs-citizen-be-careful-what-you-wish-for-the-government-just-might-give-it-to-you-good-and-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Historian Robert Higgs: “Citizen, be careful what you wish for; the government just might give it to you good and hard.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nothing Outside the State<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Robert Higgs<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

A popular slogan of the Italian Fascists under Mussolini was, \u201cTutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato\u201d (everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state). I recall this expression frequently as I observe the state\u2019s far-reaching penetration of my own society.<\/p>\n

What of any consequence remains beyond the state\u2019s reach in the United States today? Not wages, working conditions, or labor-management relations; not health care; not money, banking, or financial services; not personal privacy; not transportation or communication; not education or scientific research; not farming or food supply; not nutrition or food quality; not marriage or divorce; not child care; not provision for retirement; not recreation; not insurance of any kind; not smoking or drinking; not gambling; not political campaign funding or publicity; not real estate development, house construction, or housing finance; not international travel, trade, or finance; not a thousand other areas and aspects of social life.<\/p>\n

One might affirm that the state still keeps its hands off religion, but it actually does not. It certifies certain religious organizations as legitimate and condemns others, as many young men discovered to their sorrow when they attempted to claim the status of conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. It assigns members of certain religions, but not members of others, as chaplains in its armed services.<\/p>\n

Besides, isn\u2019t statism itself a religion for most Americans? Do they not honor the state above all else, above even the commandments of a conventional religion they may embrace? If their religion tells them \u201cthou shalt not murder,\u201d but the state orders them to murder, then they murder. If the state tells them to rob, to destroy property, and to imprison innocent people, then, notwithstanding any religious strictures, they rob, destroy property, and imprison innocent people, as millions of victims of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and millions of victims of the so-called Drug War in this country will attest. Moreover, in every form of adversity, Americans look to the state for their personal salvation, just as before the twentieth century their ancestors looked Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nothing Outside the State by Robert Higgs A popular slogan of the Italian Fascists under Mussolini was, \u201cTutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato\u201d (everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state). 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