Quote of the Day: 10 March 2022 #QotD

“How is it that the strange idea of making the law produce what it does not contain—prosperity, in a positive sense, wealth, science, religion—should ever have gained ground in the political world?” -Frédéric Bastiat
[I think it is because people have ceased caring about what the purpose of the law should be once they have realized that they can get the law to take from someone else to provide for them.]