Quote from Ricter:
I'm beginning to wonder if perhaps it would be a good idea to shrink government and reduce taxation, because recent crises are revealing the extent to which plutocracy has grown in this country. I mean, it may be impossible to reverse their advances any other way than to "starve the beast", as AAA or Rearden called it. This does not mean that I'm abandoning the principles of social justice, only that I'm looking at a different approach.
To excise the tumor that is plutocracy, and their so called "plutonomy", that has grown in our government, I wonder will we have to kill the patient? That would be unfortunate I think, as I do not believe men are ready for that government "which governs not at all" (thank you, Henry).