Frédéric Bastiat：Economic Sophisms, Excerpt 321

In short, the tactics consist in representing restraints as effective services; and the nation pays, not for services, but for disservices. Governments, assuming gigantic proportions, end by eating up half the revenues they exact. And the people, wondering at being obliged to work so hard, after hearing of inventions which are to multiply products _ad infinitum_.... continue always the same overgrown children they were before.

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