Here’s a letter that I sent a few days ago to the Washington Post:
Dear Editor:
Five-hundred and thirty-six officials – one at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. and the others a few blocks down that boulevard of brazen busybodies – are frenetically trying to lord it over ever-more vast aspects of our lives. Sen. Orrin Hatch wants Washington to correct what he divines to be imperfections in the method of choosing which teams compete in post-season college football games. Pres. Obama wants to mute changes in oil prices. And a majority of these savior-wannabes seek to remake health-care delivery, run automobile companies, protect us from financial risks, and, generally, to mandate, prohibit, and regulate us all into velvet-lined shackles.
I have a name for this repulsive social system: Capitolism.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
