Robert Tracinski explains how the state's control over our economic lives inexorably extends into control over all our lives. This is why it is madness for social conservatives to think they can be economic liberals. Tracinski uses the example of The Hitching Post to illustrate why.
If you want to be socially free it is best that you stay economically free. For he who controls your livelihood controls your life. Simple but obvious point missed by so many social libertarians and conservatives alike. At the link.
http://thefederalist.com/2014/10/28/sally-kohn-shows-how-the-liberals-got-so-illiberal/
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