> Taxation and spending aren't inherently bad I mean, they kind of are. Tax-and-spend policies inherently centralize and politicize decision making for matter

> Taxation and spending aren't inherently bad I mean, they kind of are. Tax-and-spend policies inherently centralize and politicize decision making for matters that are better off in the decentralized hands of civil society, and create perverse incentives that usually lead to both waste and bad policy. For some questions, there might not be viable alternatives, so we might be stuck with tax-and-spend, but that doesn't make its own defects disappear, it just means we need to deal with those defects.