The first three:
1. Subsidizing the markers of status doesn’t produce the character traits that result in that status; it undermines them.
2. The more a government wants to run its citizens’ lives, the worse job it will do at the most basic tasks of government.
3. Whatever politicians control, they will use against you to get what they want.
Actually, the third has been proposed by Will Collier. Reynolds has not explicitly embraced it.
So here is:
0., 3., or 4. When confronted with a public policy decision, politicians will prefer the option that maximizes graft.
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