Quote of the Day: Spending People’s Money To Lobby For More of People’s Money

Prolific author Matt Ridley on government’s funding/financing of lobby groups to argue for more taxpayer funded political projects.

You don't take money off people to spend it on getting people to argue for more money to be taken off them.

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It’s one way to buy the mainstream. And it’s another way for politicos to have one’s cake and eat it too while taxpayers get fried on their own lard.