Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

If looking for an exposition of the post hoc ergo propter hoc logical fallacy when applied to wealth and the size of government in the United States, you can find it in this speech, “The State Expands, and Weakens,” given by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, to a free-market businessmen’s group in Okemos, Michigan, on April 16, 2005. HT: Mises Economics Blog