“This is how many otherwise responsible citizens rationalize their own line-up at the federal trough. Farmers see businessmen getting their tariffs. Businessmen observe subsidies to farmers. Labor leaders eye them both for copying. Angelenos see Gothamites getting federal aid, and Miamians read about federal handouts to Seattleites. Such logrolling of special interests grows, and “how to get ours” becomes the ‘economic’ talk of the nation. That a naughty feeling often attends this weak excuse is understandable.” –Leonard Read
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