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> ...arranged for the checks to prominently display the funding source—“UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.” The funding source is not the United States Government. The

• dctoedt 7y ago
  > The funding source is not the United States Government. The funding source is US taxpayers. The right wing likes to proclaim this in support of their dislike of taxes and of government generally (at least when government is telling them what they can and can't do; it seems quite different when they control government and get to tell others what they can't do). But if we're going to work our way backwards through the chain of funding sources, why stop there? Seems to me that taxpayers' employers could make the same argument about being the funding source — and then the employers' customers — and so on, stretching all the way back to the Big Bang ....