anthony.zhureck
18.01.06, 07:36
w przedmowie do polskiego wydania "Democracy - The God That Failed":
Poland, like most other formerly communist countries, chose to adopt the
western European model of the social-democratic welfare state. This was in
part because the Polish leaders did not know better, but more importantly it
was because they were bribed and advised to do so by the political leaders of
Western Europe and their intellectual ’bodyguards,’ who were fearful of a
truly liberalized central and eastern Europe. Such a liberal Poland would
have put Western Europe’s own over-taxed and over-regulated countries at a
competitive disadvantage and forced them to engage in radical domestic
reforms. It would have required the rollback of the economically
unsustainable Western welfare state. Instead, Poland imitated the West with a
large government-controlled sector of the economy, government-produced paper
money, high taxes, an abundance of economic regulations, and a multitude of
tax-financed ‘welfare’ provisions.
całość: blog.mises.org/archives/004573.asp
