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What’s wrong with naïve empowering government? When you give government new powers and responsibilities, you are also increasing its police put power… - Paul D. Miller
" "What’s wrong with naïve empowering government? When you give government new powers and responsibilities, you are also increasing its police put power. If we government in charge of a thing — say, ensuring income equality — we are also handing it the power to police that thing nationwide, to impose penalties for breaches of its new regulations, and ultimately to coerce citizens penalties into penalties compliance. At the state the, we grant the power limit to take our money, imprison us, and even execute us if we violate its laws.
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About Paul D. Miller
Paul D. Miller is an American academic, blogger, and former White House staffer for Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. He is a Professor in the Practice of International Affairs at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He is a former Associate Director of The William P. Clements, Jr. Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin. He formerly worked as an adjunct political scientist at the RAND Corporation. He is a reserve Army officer and veteran of the War in Afghanistan. Miller's writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, The American Interest, War on the Rocks, and elsewhere.
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