Here’s an insight from the book Milton Friedman wrote with his wife Rose: Free to Choose: A Personal Statement. It explains why government spending is wasteful, how it leads to corruption, how it often does not benefit the people it was intended, and how the pressure for more spending is always present. For more on this, see Friedman: The fallacy of the welfare state.
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