"All taxation, however disguised, is a loss per se. It is the duty, and sacred duty, of Government to take only from the people what is necessary to the proper discharge of the public service; and that taxation in any other mode is simply in one shape or another, legalized robbery."
Liberal Finance Minster Richard Cartwright (1876).
Give the government more cash and they will spend it. The old "expenses will rise to income" axiom. Of which, we can add, "and surpass income (revenues).
And when they (reach that point) borrow to spend some more (ie money they don't have), they begin the road to confiscation.
It's not a price to pay for civilization. It's now something much more grotesque.
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