why govt's get bigger

[Norman Hardy]

At  0:05 1/14/94 -0500, gregguy at aol.com wrote:
>frode at toaster.SFSU.EDU (Frode Odegard) asked the rather sweeping question of
>why governments get bigger.
>
>Actually, this is one of the great (but often unsung) libertarian  proofs.
>Governments act as any rational being acts -- in their own self interest. As
>the distillers of laws and collectors of taxes, however, they just have a
>better shot at self-interest nirvanna than the rest of us.
>
>//greg brooks (gregguy at aol.com   PGP key available on keyservers)

Any sucessful biological entity acts in its own self interest. It need not
be logical or concious. The libertarian would call the governement a
parasite. The book Bionomics by Rothchild examines this anology in detail.