One of the most important chapters addresses this government lie: "America has a free market." The State is inherently opposed to the market, of course, but U.S. politicians love to hail "free enterprise" and the "free market" for their own self-interested purposes. Doing so makes them sound decent and reasonable because even today many people have at least some vague sense that the market is the source of our prosperity. More importantly, politicians love to promote the idea that we have a free market because that means when things go wrong in the economy, they can blame the market, rather than accept blame themselves, and claim that they need more power to overcome the market’s alleged failures.
Lies the government tells us.
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