FMF NEWSLETTER 16 FEBRUARY 2017
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This week’s feature article explores the age-old truth that the more power government has, the more corrupt people it will attract. The author explains that, while some laws are necessary, South Africans are hindered by thousands of arbitrary laws. New laws will not make the country prosperous; reducing arbitrary laws will help increase prosperity much more than the efforts of the most well-intentioned politician.
Ever expanding governments breed corruption – REX VAN SCHALKWYK
Publius Cornelius Tacitus, who lived during the first century AD, gave this warning: “The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws”. It was an equation – of an unusual kind – based upon no mathematical or scientific model, it was based on an observation of social behaviour; what later academic studies have described as behavioural science, a science known for its inexactitude. Tacitus’ wisdom has, however, withstood the test of the millennia.
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Publish date: 21 February 2017 Views: 122
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