Lysander Spooner's Letter to Grover Cleveland
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The Meaning of the Politicians
Gloria Borger: We have to get to the part where Spooner lists all his favorite political pieces of political piffle. She says he has that special flair to and I don't even know if all those come from Cleveland speech. He gets into some interesting public choice analysis about what the robbers do between each other, she says. Borger: There's a lot of anticipation of the sort of public choice idea that politicians are no different from ordinary human beings. If we give them large amounts of power, we ought to expect that they will use that power in a way that will benefit themselves and those to whom they're closely connected, she writes.
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