… is from page 51 of UCLA economist William Allen’s 1989 collection of the transcripts of his excellent radio addresses, The Midnight Economist; specifically, it’s from Allen’s August 1984 radio address entitled “Bad-Mannered Government is Bad Government”:
The size of government can be variously measured. It is also reflected in the sinews of everyday life. More government spending and taxing mean more government – and more government means more rules and directives, more personal uncertainty and unease, more private concern and efforts of self-protection, more informers and enforcers, more reliance on autocratic bureaucrats and a broader realm of discretion for their unaccountable lackeys.
