It has coercive power, so it is essential that you have a healthy scepticism of it.
The coercive power of the state to violate individual rights is, on this issue, prohibited.
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We must reject the institutions of liberty and choose instead to bind our actions together through the coercive power of government.
Virtually all such groups view coercion as a fundamental wrong, and focus on what they see as abuses of government power (including cronyism) because only the government can legally use coercive power.
The nationalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Treasury's purchase of - at last count - 17 banks and the ability to provide, or withhold, funds from its new slush-fund can translate into unprecedented coercive power.
In none of these cautionary examples did the free market do the three things businessmen say it always does: weaken the coercive power of the state, create a democratically minded middle class, or expose the populace to liberal ideals from abroad.
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Here is an example of the perverted moral reasoning that results from the left's illusion of moral authority: For Walsh, it is not as bad for liberals to use the coercive power of the administrative state to subvert democracy as it is for conservatives to vote.
Who can seriously doubt that the power which a millionaire, who may be my employer, has over me is very much less than that which the smallest bureaucrat possesses who wields the coercive power of the state and on whose discretion it depends how I am allowed to live and work?
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Instead the activity that goes by the name antitrust is itself coercive monopoly power of the most sweeping nature possible.
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The demands, to the extent they are formalized, are to restrict freedom further with heavy-handed government redistribution using growth-stunting, coercive political power rather than expanding freedom and allowing pro-growth market-based reallocation to destroy enclaves of political privilege and expand the pie for all.
Congress could pass an equally coercive law under its taxing power by imposing a healthcare tax on everyone and freeing them from the tax if they purchased health insurance.
The reason: Global warming is not about science, but about politics that is, about expanding the power of elites using the coercive instruments of government to control the lives of people everywhere.
The most fearsome and coercive arm of the administrative state embarked on a systematic effort to suppress citizen dissent against the party in power.
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