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is no mure cured by raising taxes than an illness is cured by shooting the patient.

While deficits are often inflationary and always pernicious, curing them by raising taxes is equivalent to curing an illness by shooting the patient. Murray Rothbard

is a perverse Christmas where adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it. Richard Lamm

is the indirect taxation of someone else down the road.

If the US government spends 40 percent of the nation's income, as it does through either borrowing or taxes, that income is not available for people to spend. The deficit is an indirect method of taxation. Of course, politicians prefer to borrow instead of tax because then someone down the road has to deal with the consequences. Milton Friedman

is what you have when you haven't as much as if you had just nothing.

what you have when you haven't as much as if you had just nothing.

is one of the few things that is permanent in government.

is what the government has when it hasn't as much as if it had nothing.

is the only thing you have left after you pay your taxes.

DEFICIT A deficit is the only thing you have left after you pay your taxes.

is what you have when you haven't as much as when you had nothing.

A deficit is what you have when you haven't as much as when you had nothing.

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