The wisdom of Bastiat’s
analysis -- “what is seen and what is not seen” -- applied to the field
of electoral propaganda -- reminds us the economic common-sense: any action
implies costs – the most appreciated foregone alternative. The state’s
redirection of economic resources is not only based on aggression, but
it implies the squandering of scarce economic means, i.e. the necessary
negation of the legitimate owners’ most valued option.