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In all three states, administrative incapacity and low budgetary support had been trotted out as explanations. These, however, were superficial answers. If its politicians had not annexed road building, Mizoram’s state revenues would have been higher. If Odisha had retained more of the revenue from the iron ore boom, it could have spent more on teachers. Had Punjab mopped up revenues from liquor and stone crushing, it could have had more than one cardiologist for the entire state. Each of these were choices made, not by the bureaucracy, but the political leadership. In all three states, political parties, voted to power to find solutions to the problems facing these states, had made choices that helped them grow at the cost of their people.
Despite the State
M. Rajshekhar
The limits of taxation are: (1) the willingness of people to work as they are taxed; (2) what the coalition is willing to bear; and (3) the cost of collecting taxes.
The Dictator's Handbook
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
What it means to be a citizen is anchored in norms and practices that have accumulated over history. An individual cannot simply decide for themselves what it means to be a citizen or who counts as a citizen.
Race, Time, and Utopia
William M. Paris
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