Less is more
Interesting point in a letter to the Spectator this week in response to a Charles Moore point that the Australian parliament sits for only 18 weeks a year.
Martin Sewell from Gravesend (no link – I think it’s behind the pay wall) says that the Texas and Oklahoma legislatures ordinarily sit in alternate years, and the Utah legislature sits for 45 days a year.
Yet those states host six of the ten US cities not affected by the recession.
So Tom Paine was right: “that government is best which governs least”.
Interesting letter to the Spectator this week in response to a Charles Moore point that the Australian parliament sits for only 18 weeks a year.
Martin Sewell from Gravesend (sorry, no link – I think it’s behind the pay wall) says that the Texas and Oklahoma legislatures ordinarily sit in alternate years, and the Utah legislature sits for 45 days a year.
Yet those states host six of the ten US cities not affected by the recession.
So Tom Paine was right: “That government is best which governs least”.
And so, surely, was Cicero: “The more laws, the less justice.”