103: Government Money

Democracy and Power 103: Government Money

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.

– Voltaire (1764)

Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. First, let’s make sure we understand what government spending is. Since government has no resources of its own, and since there’s no Tooth Fairy handing Congress the funds for the programs it enacts, we are forced to recognize that government spending is no less than the confiscation of one person’s property to give it to another to whom it does not belong – in effect, legalized theft.

– Walter Williams

The money taxed and spent by the politicians comes from the labor and ingenuity of millions of working persons. Politicians spend other peoples’ money.

The politician transfers money from productive people to a favored special-interest group.

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