Le Principe de Chodorov

During the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy scare, conservative Republicans complained about the fact that alleged communists were ensconced in government jobs. The libertarian journalist Frank Chodorov (1887-1966) made the sensible reply that there was no need to go after these politically unpopular toilers. Instead, the way to get the communists out of the government was to get rid of the government jobs.

In this insight he was surely right, but why stop with government jobs? Frank Chodorov’s method of ridding the government of alleged undesirables can be generalized in what I call the Chodorov Principle: For every social problem A caused by government program X, problem A can be solved by abolishing program X.

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