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What government does

The best way to understand this whole issue is to look at what the government does: It takes money from some people, keeps a bunch of it, and gives the rest to other people.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 9, 2012November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories socialismTags Dave Barry

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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