Form: Short Note

**THEME: “REPRESENTATION WITHOUT TAXATION”**

May 6th, 2009

I’ve been looking for a simple theme and I found it today on Kling’s blog:

“Our last revolution was fueled by taxation without representation — the coming revolution is being fueled by representation without taxation.”

Followed by a few choice others:

“As the population size goes to infinity the political significance of any individual goes to zero. In small populations, democracy is a way to make decisions. In a large population, it gives the state the ability to signal it is providing liberty and freedom when in fact it is doing just the opposite.”

“… they did originally limit the vote to property owners, which takes care of the everybody-votes-themselves-a-share-of-my-stuff problem (an instance of tyranny of the majority). Then we got rid of that restriction (and a lot of worse ones, granted). Now we’re vulnerable to the flaw Tocqueville identified: The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”

“Democracy in all its forms sows the seeds of its own destruction. Regardless of how you attempt to limit it, the majority will always eventually enslave the population, including its own members, by the use of popular vote.”

“Democracy is just incremental communism.”