Our oil supply is secure, not because our government threatens to use force against those who would make it insecure, but because the world’s oil sup… - David R. Henderson

West points out that early in the nineteenth century, the British government was quite upset about the number of working-class people who were reading political literature. The government, writes West, took ‘fiscal and legal action against the spread of newspapers, especially those critical of government.’

One thing we know from centuries of history is that if the government has revenue to spend, it will spend it.

The bottom line is that in a free market, any employer who discriminates on grounds that have nothing to do with productivity will pay a cost for doing so. The economic system that removes the props from racism is free markets.