By simultaneously decreasing the country’s revenue and increasing its expenses,
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So they equate “the government” with “the country”?
So they equate “the government” with “the country”?By simultaneously decreasing the country’s revenue and increasing its expenses,
They do that systematically. Back when W was running in 2000, he said that “Texas spends X” on hospitals. The Democrats said that the Texas budget said otherwise. But W meant that hospitals in Texas took in X. Which meant that Texas society and Texas government, spent that much.SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.”Liberals” love to use “society” as a euphemism for government. But by doing so they set a (necessary) evil equal to a positive good.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil . . . were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)