"whichever type of government we look at, “taxpayers’ money” does not fund it. Tax undoubtedly plays a role in government financing, but as a matter of fact the government never spends other people’s money, which would be pretty unethical if our politicians even thought for a moment about what they were saying. Instead, government always spends its own money and is responsible for its own decisions on that spending. It really is time that at this most basic of levels politicians learned what it is they do, how the government that they control works, and how as a result they should manage it. Every time they use the term “taxpayers’ money” they show that they know none of those things."
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