On the intended consequences of state intervention

For some reason today I was reminded of this pamphlet by Brian Micklethwait from a few years ago.

I started reading it in the hope of finding some knockout quote that I thought I'd read but couldn't find it. Nevertheless there are still plenty of good lines, such as:

Whatever. One way or another many state welfarists hate non-poor people so much that they persist in supporting welfare policies which are even more hurtful to poor people than they are to non-poor people. You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs. The broken eggs are the miseries of the poor, and the rather milder but still real grief inflicted upon some or all of the non-poor is the omelette.