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"If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." --Reagan
by known 9y ago
"If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." --Reagan
- matt4077 9y agoPeople use this quote as some sort of insightful attack on the failures of government, but, in a certain light, it's exactly what government is supposed to do.
- fivestar 9y agoAny thinking person should question the insipid nature of government because it never seems to get perfected but is always and everywhere just a blunt object which bludgeons us into cooperating with it one way or another.