QUOTE OF THE DAY, 2: On Redistribution

"The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that
redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of income
from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution
of power from the individual to the State"
-- Bertrand de Jouvenel, economist, philosopher
and co-founder of the Mont Pelerin Society in 1947
[Hat tip Lawrence Reed]