The “father” of modern statism has always had many supporters but, even in difficult times for the reduced liberal and free market forces, some lucid giants of the liberal tradition have never given in to the flattery of the statist sirens. In Italy Sergio Ricossa And Brown Lions They constituted the “outpost” that never took a step back in the face of that rampant tide, which punctually reappears even today with resounding spending plans on a continental scale, always with decisions imposed from above, which establish how and where to use enormous quantities of money taken from the usual taxpayer.
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Everything is planned from above, both how withdraw from the taxpayer and how to spend that enormous amount of money that magically transforms from private to public, that is, at the disposal of the political-bureaucratic planner, with the inevitable side effects that take the form of serious waste and inefficiencies.
Ricossa wrote: “Socialism plans at too high a cost. It could even afford it if it were universal, if it were not in competition with capitalisms, if it did not have to undergo comparisons that mortify even its friends and sympathizers. Its fascinating ideals are so onerous that even those fascinated hesitate to pay for them and look for someone to pay for them in their place” (Ibid).
It is the Keynesian myth that he would like with his recipes save capitalism from its ills and instead, in practice, it poisons it. An endless series of “fascinating but costly ideals” that justify each time a new levy “for the greater good”.
“As the perfidy of tyrannical poisons grows over the centuries, the effectiveness of liberal antidotes must also grow, if we want to survive. It is a pity that Leoni’s antidote is so little known, especially in Italy, where an avalanche of insipid, if not unjust, laws is not even enough to sustain a minimum of social order” (Ibid).
Moving from Italy to Europe, there is a leap in terms of magnitude: everything is amplified, the enormity of the figures, of the discretionary waste, and the volume of the “avalanche of insipid laws”!
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