Rebbe Nachman, quoted in Chayei Moharan 156:
אמר המקום שלי הוא רק ארץ ישראל מה שאני נוסע אני נוסע רק לארץ ישראל ולפי שעה אני רועה בברסלב וכיוצא.
He said: My true home is the land of Israel. Wherever I travel, I am traveling to the land of Israel, although I temporarily reside in Breslov and similar locations in the Diaspora.
Equality of the general rules of law and conduct, however, is the only kind of equality conducive to liberty and the only equality which we can secure without destroying liberty. Not only has liberty nothing to do with any other sort of equality, but it is even bound to produce inequality in many respects. This is the necessary result and part of the justification of individual liberty: If the result of individual liberty did not demonstrate that some manners of living are more successful than others, much of the case for it would vanish.
The Constitution of Liberty, by Friedrich Hayek.
Anything else amounts to perverse incentives.
Published on Feb 28, 2018
הרב יעקב מאיר שכטר ובכירי רבני ברסלב מוקיעים את אליעזר ברלנד בעקבות פרסום פסק בית הדין המיוחד בעניינו
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26:11 הגה”צ רבי נתן ליברמנש שליט”א
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את ההכרזות הבאנו בעבר כאן. לרקע נוסף ראה באתר “ברסלב אמת”, כאן.
North Korea is at the bottom, termed “Repressed”, and Hong Kong, Singapore, and New Zealand are at the top, termed, with some exaggeration, “Free”. (Some countries, including Liechtenstein and Syria, are left unranked.)
Here’s the summary of Israel:
Israel’s economic freedom score is 72.2, making its economy the 31st freest in the 2018 Index. Its overall score has increased by 2.5 points, with significant improvements in government integrity, fiscal health, and property rights easily outpacing a decline in the score for the trade freedom indicator. Israel is ranked 3rd among 14 countries in the Middle East and North Africa region, and its overall score is above the regional and world averages.
Strong trade and investment ties outside of the Middle East insulate Israel’s technologically advanced free-market economy from regional political instability. The government plans further economic liberalization, but fiscal consolidation has been deferred in favor of populist spending and tax measures demanded by the governing coalition. Competitiveness is enhanced by strong protection of property rights, efficient coordination of regulatory processes, and a sound judicial framework that sustains the rule of law…
To listen to the hosannas from “liberal” circles whenever some new government appropriation takes billions of dollars out of the pockets of private taxpayers for some new state project employing thousands or tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of government functionaries, it might be imagined that a welfare state, run by bureaucrats, was the last word in human happiness and well-being. But the lessons of history point clearly in an opposite direction. The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable signs, not of a great, but of a decaying society.
Historians know that both phenomena were especially marked in the declining eras of the Roman Empire in the West and of its successor state, the Eastern or Byzantine Empire. Bureaucrats are an expensive breed, in two ways. They are maintained at public expense and they are uncommonly fertile in thinking up schemes to spend more public funds and multiply their number.