Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

Melchior Palyi

Melchior Palyi (1892-1970) was a Hungarian-born American economist and professor. He was particularly critical of socialized medicine as a conduit for the erosion of human rights and imposition of totalitarianism.

In democracies, the welfare state is the beginning, and the police state the end. The two merge sooner or later, in all experience, and for obvious reasons.
Compulsory Medical Care and the Welfare State

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.