It also reveals where they stand on a whole range of policy issues including gun control, compulsory marketing boards, compulsory unionism, and endangered species protection. By understanding what a candidate and his or her party believes about property rights, you have the ability to clearly discern which direction they would take the country. At this point it becomes easy to determine who is the real threat to freedom. Most people believe that whenever there's something wrong with government, it's the government workers who are at fault. This is simply not true.
Government workers are like people everywhere else - just ordinary folks.
The real problem with government is the nature of the institution itself. Consider the fact that there are four characteristics that define a government's performance. They apply equally to federal, provincial and municipal levels of government. Interestingly, they're polar opposites of what characterize a private sector business. Managers and workers are rewarded on the basis of efficiency and performance.