… is from pages 78-79 of my late, great colleague Walter Williams’s 1995 volume, Do the Right Thing; specifically, it’s from Walter’s December 8th, 1994, column (for which I cannot find a link) “Leviathan Run Amok”:
Any catastrophe attracts vultures to feed off carcasses. In the case of regulations, it’s consultants, lawyers, and accountants. Businessmen know about business, but they know little about all the government mandates that can destroy their business. In come the vultures to advise and counsel them to the tune of thousands of dollars a day. Again, who pays? And again, it’s consumers and workers.
DBx: Were he still alive, Walter would today – March 31st, 2026 – celebrate his 90th birthday. Although he’s been gone now for more than five years, I still intensely miss his good humor, piercing insight, and unyielding principle.
He is pictured here on the evening in May 2017 when he was presented with the Bradley Prize.
