Government as a Special Interest Group

People complain of the undue influence of special interest groups in Washington, D. C.  Government itself, however, is a special interest group.  For it profits those who work for it, and those who, while not working for it, depend on it for their livelihood, having been made dependent on it by policies and gimmicks that create dependency, a dependency that government then exploits for its own expansion. The services to the rest of us that government at all levels provides are costly, frequently substandard, sometimes nonexistent, often unnecessary, and sometimes positively injurious.

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