Great Regulars: What interests me is the thinking

that underlies that phrase "tax cuts cost." The presumption seems to be that the primary function of citizens is to underwrite the government. Actually, that is not the function of citizens. That is the function of subjects.

Another presumption underlying the thought that tax cuts "cost" is that government ought to be doing all sorts of things for which it is manifestly unsuited.

from Frank Wilson: When Falls the Coliseum: That's What He Said: The political class thinks of itself as the ruling class

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