Daniel Hannan, "the evangelist for the much smaller state" commented on Britain's "relative social fragmentation", and pointed out that "state spending is now 40% of GDP". "Efficiency of the state starts to fall of once it starts to raise more than 20% of the GDP, and there are serious diminishing returns once the percentage of wealth taken by the state goes above the necessary minimum."
"The expansion of the state has frayed the bonds that used to tie people together. It was not very long ago when an adult, seeing a child out of the classroom in school time, would have stopped the child and asked: 'Why aren't you in school?' and that's now seen as the responsibility of the state. Not so very long ago you would check to make sure that an elderly neighbour was picking up their milk every morning. Now that is seen as the responsibility of Social Services. Every time the state presumes to do something that was previously done by communities we become less good citizens and, yes, there may be money being saved, but that's an incidental side effect. This is primarily about making us more responsible.
Nick Boles is a fraud, a shit and pompous with it.
20% is the magic number. It is the magic number, folks. The Koran recommends that as the top rate of tax and hedge funds know that it is the most you can make people willingly pay for a service.
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Perhaps one day soon Dan Hannan will become leader of the Tory Party. His understanding of Conservatism is demonstrated by the way he so ably and elegantly articulates its principles. Cameron and his cunts of convictionless Conservatism can then fuck off to New Generation New Labour or even the LibDems or whatever where I am sure they will be ideologically at home, and the Tory Party can once more be a party for Conservatives.
No doubt Cameron and his Commie cronies will do their utmost to prevent Hannan from getting a safe seat.
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