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If a businessman in a small town has to make a large cash deposit, he can call the local police for an escort. On the other hand, an old woman who lives in a ghetto cannot get a cop to go shopping with her.
Operating on the theory that (based on our ability) we "all" pay in to the common pool of resources from which we "all" can draw (based on need), government can only be -- metaphysically -- what Bastiat described.
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Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. 
