The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices—paid by others.
— Thomas Sowell, Ever Wonder Why? And Other Controversial Essays (2006), p. 301
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