A Worthwhile Read

Walter Williams, a self-described conservative economist/commentator, wrote an interesting piece that aims to shed light on how money, as a medium of exchange, can camouflage coercive activities that we would otherwise view as intolerable. This obfuscation is exacerbated when it is combined with big, fungible pot of money whose sizable ante is the result of the millions of dollars gathered from government reaches into our pocketbooks to fund "social goods".