My point was to observe that: - first, government spending is highly scrutinised, by the convention that people expect every tax dollar to be spent in a way th

My point was to observe that: - first, government spending is highly scrutinised, by the convention that people expect every tax dollar to be spent in a way that they deem worthy; - whereas, most private businesses are not scrutinised in any sort of comparable way (often not even when they are spending tax dollars - which they can, directly and indirectly).