Sunday, March 11, 2012

A little less government, please?

'My idea of a perfect government is one guy who sits in a small room at a desk, and the only thing he's allowed to decide is who to nuke.' Ron Swanson, on Parks & Recreation
Okay, maybe I'll allow you a few regulatory bodies to keep everything in check, but I've always liked the general idea of less government.

So, though I don't really have an opinion on their politics, I was happy to hear a quasi-Chief Minister say this, rather than the usual spiel on roti, kapda, makan, bijli, sadak and pani.
'Eliminate the cause of corruption: interaction. Corruption happens when there's an interaction between public man and the government departments and officers. The minute you reduce or eliminate the interaction there will be no corruption.'
Twenty one years since the so-called end of the license raj, it still takes a dozen or more licenses to run a business in India. And behind every piece of paper lurks an excuse for extortion by agents of the state.

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