..either immediately or ultimately every dollar of government spending…

Henry Hazlitt
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..either immediately or ultimately every dollar of government spending must be raised through a dollar of taxation. Once we look at the matter. In this way, the supposed miracles of government spending will appear in another light. ✨ Henry Hazlitt (2010). Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics, p.27, Crown Business
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