Milton Friedman Free to Choose sorozatanak tizedik resze a szabadsagrol szol altalaban es az allami beavatkozasrol. Nem a rendszervaltas utani Magyarorszagot taglalja, es megis mintha azt akarna leirni. Friedman az Egyesult Allamokrol:
What we've been looking at is a natural human reaction to the attempt by other people to control your life when you think it's none of their business. The first reaction is resentment. The second is to attempt to get around it. And finally, there comes a decline in respect for law in general. There's nothing specially American about this. It happens all over the world whenever some people try to control other people. For example, take a look at what's happening to the British.
Graham Turner iro a Margaret Thatcher elotti Nagy-Britanniarol (hosszu, ugyhogy kiemelesekkel):
Take a small grocer in a country area say Devon. Very small turnover, how does he make money? He finds out that by buying through regular wholesalers, he always has to use invoices. But if he goes to the cash and carry and buys his goods from there, the profit margin on those goods can be untaxed because the tax inspectors simply don't know he had those goods. That's the way he does it. And if you take it to the top end, if you take a company director, there're all kinds of ways they can do it. They buy their food through the company, they have their holidays on the company, they put their wives as company directors even though they never visit the factory. They build their houses on the company by a very simple device, building a factory at the same time as a house. It goes absolutely right through the range, from the ordinary working class person doing quite menial jobs, right to the top end, businessmen, senior politicians, members of the cabinet, members of the shadow cabinet, they all do it. I think almost everybody now feels that the tax system is basically unfair. And everybody who can tries to find a way around that tax system. Now once that happens, once there's a consensus that the tax system is unfair, the country in effect becomes a kind of conspiracy, and everybody helps each other to fiddle. You've no difficulty fiddling in this country because other people actually want to help you. Now fifteen years ago that would've been quite different, people would've said hey, you know, this is not quite as it should be. So that's the first reason, a very high level of taxation. There's another factor that comes into it. And that is that over the years we've had a huge growth in bureaucracy, government expenditure, cotton wool if you like, protect people from the slings and arrows of ordinary life, you know, health service, all kinds of benefits of one sort or another. And I think this is coming to the consciousness of people, a sort of new factor, a feeling that things don't quite have the value that they had. Money is not a thing of value if you're sure you get it from one government body or other.
Vagyis: a magas adok a magyarnak vagy balkaninak hittre remesen hasonlito legkort teremtettek, ami a jogkoveto magatartast illeti. Mi tortenik ezalatt Skandinaviaban? Ha nem ez, miert nem?
