Who said - "They Don't Fear Government"
Ok dear readers. Let’s play a little quiz. Who said this:
They don’t fear government.
Well it’s not Thomas Jefferson who said:
When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
So, based on Jeffersonian logic, who is advocating for tyranny.
Here’s a hint. They currently sit in the Commonwealth House of Representatives.
You’re probably thinking it’s someone from the Greens or Labor? Nah.
It was the leader of the National Party. David Littleproud. Who if there was a coalition government would be Deputy Prime Minister.
He said this in the context of his and the Nats campaign to give the ACCC divestiture power. The game in town du jour … the large supermarkets.
Can the ACCC have the power to break down the education, health, and social service cartel in Australia? No. Course not. That’s market power exercised by bureaucrats.
Well, last I checked, even Prime Minister Albanese acknowledged that Australia was not the old Soviet Union. The memo must not have hit the Nat’s party room.
In non-Soviet Union style countries, people and organisations are prosecuted for breaking laws. Not laws certain people would like but actual written (and Royal ascended) laws.
And when it comes to market power, it’s not its existence that could arguably be a problem, but its exercise.
Any evidence of abuse of market power? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?
A great policy coalition. The Greens and Nats on one side (the actual and the agrarian socialists) and Labor and Liberal on the other.
Gawd.
Fearing government: