“Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.” – Frederic Bastiat
There is some truth to this, but it is built on a misunders...
The one is voluntary support; the other is expropriation enforced by coercion in order to redistribute the money according to a planned-economy model (and to keep a portion of it for oneself without having to engage in any productive activity).
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