What is the real cause of the buying and selling of favors by government officials?
The real problem is not businessmen bribing government officials. The real cause of the problem is that businessmen, and other ‘interest groups’, are forced to pay extortion money to government officials, i.e., blood money in the literal sense of the term, as these same politicians control the police through the creation of rules and regulations. Private citizens are forced to do this by virtue of the bureaucrat’s power to control, run, and even destroy his business by the passing of nonobjective laws that violate his inalienable rights, i.e. by closing entry or exit to markets thus violating his right to liberty, i.e. increasing or decreasing taxes to specific individuals (but not to others) violating the right to equal treatment by government, i.e. preventing him from selling to willing consumers by failing to grant him a ‘permit’, and/or granting a monopoly to his competitor, i.e. punishing for being too competitive and successful by claiming he is a monopoly through making the best
