John Downen says this, and I guess it sums up the issue. My problem is w/ the 'powerful and well-connected' and yours appears to be the 'coercive apparatus of the state'. Interesting paragraph.
When government exerts influence over the lives of its citizens, the powerful and well connected use the coercive apparatus of the state for their selfish ends. This comes at the expense of the less fortunate and less well organized and the environmental systems on which we depend. The perennial problem is how to reduce the power of the state to generate such abuses while maintaining its ability to protect the weak from the powerful.
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