precious little will be forthcoming for the common good without state coercion.

bobal, those who arrogate to themselves the power to decide what “common goods” will be redistributed from those whose labor produced them to those whose idleness puts them in need of them are beating the mules that pull the wagon with the coercion club too vigorously, and they’re whomping the wrong end if they expect the mules to pull harder instead of sit on their haunches.

The free riders that voted in the muleskinners should get down and lend a hand at the wheels when the going gets rough, lest the mules kick over the traces and run off leaving the wagon and passengers slowly sinking in quicksand.