Making do with less: crown corporations in an age of restraint.
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Making do with less: crown corporations in an age of restraint.
The French philosopher Jacques Maritain wrote that "man is in no sense there for the State. The State is there for man." Paul Valery said, "If the State is powerful, it crushes us. If it is not powerful, we are lost." Today Governments on both right and left are cutting public services because they cannot find the money to fund them. Reducing the deficit entails eliminating spending. Every legislature in the country now boasts of extensive expertise in the consequences of liquidating its Crown corporations. Parliamentarians, many with great reluctance, have had the responsibility of adjusting the size of government to the needs of the current...
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