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The Incredible Contribution of the Charitable Impulse

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The Incredible Contribution of the Charitable Impulse
Circa 1900: Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850–1917), known as Mother Cabrini, the first American citizen to be canonized. She founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and was canonized in 1946. Archive Photos/Getty Images
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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A great mistake everywhere in political science literature is the vast overestimation of the actual contribution that government makes to building good societies. To be sure, good government is better than bad, but overall, government has no resources of its own. Everything it has, it must extract from the public in one form or another.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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