When your money is taken by a thief, you get nothing in return. When your money is taken through taxes to support needless bureaucrats, precisely the same situation exists. We are lucky, indeed, if the needless bureaucrats are mere easy-going loafers. They are more likely today to be energetic reformers busily discouraging and disrupting production.

Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics (ed. Crown Business, 2010) - ISBN: 9780307760623