Back when I was still an obediently socialist teenage idiot, Ronald Reagan made his famous quip about government. The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help’. At the time, I thought it was the dumbest thing I’d ever heard.
Then I grew up. A lifetime of experience and a predilection for studying history have taught me that Reagan was right. There have been very few questions where ‘more government’ was the right answer.
