Government – Man-Made Disaster
Let’s consider a man who sows a food crop on his farm. If he’s any good at farming, he will cultivate and tend his crop regularly, working many long hours to be sure he has something to show for his labor. Let’s say that he has done his job well and has an excellent harvest in sight when a violent storm occurs and destroys half of his crop. That’s a disaster for him – it’s a natural disaster.
But if the same man avoids the storm and sells his crop at the market price, but then has to pay half of his rightful profit in government taxes, that is not a natural disaster, it’s a man-made disaster.
