When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business. (Henry Hazlitt)

When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.

Henry Hazlitt

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