The secret of the welfare state is you can do almost anything in the short run, juggling money from here to there. But in the long run, the arithmetic can't be ignored, and you're gonna run out of money.
— Thomas Sowell, Uncommon Knowledge: The Trickle-Down Lie (Robinson) (2012)
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