How Not to Do It: Nothing Works in the Omnicompetent State

?The state has become a vast and intricate system of patronage?.It is essentially corporatist: the central government, avid for power, sets itself up as an authority on everything and claims to be omnicompetent both morally and in practice; and by means of taxation, licensing, regulation, and bureaucracy, it destroys the independence of all organizations that intervene between it and the individual citizen.?