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Can A Democratic State Be Curbed?
The Spectator (6 March 2005) asks, ‘Is it now democratically possible to reduce state spending?’ The question is apposite - & the answer is chilling. Something like 25-33% of voters in the UK now consist of state employees, contractors, consultants, _their_ employees, & all their voting-age family members. A similar solid voting bloc has operated in Sweden for decades. The government sector there constitutes the bulk of ‘the economy’. J. S Mill did say that those who received ‘parish relief’ - government payments - should be automatically disqualified from voting.
The Crown was ‘painfully brought under the law’ (Prof. J. H. Baker); now it is the democratic despots in Parliament who need to be removed.
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