“...a government with vast and arbitrary power to punish people who have done no wrong.”

“...a government with vast and arbitrary power to punish people who have done no wrong.”  The last part of the last sentence of Megan McArdle's excellent piece on some of the many the ways our government is abusing us.  You shouldn't miss it. 

Really, you shouldn't miss anything Ms. McArdle writes, because the worst of it is better than almost anything else you'll read on economics, politics, policy, and cooking...