Some champions of ever-greater governmental power and spending invent the theory that the taxpayers, left to themselves, spend the money they have earned very foolishly, on all sorts of trivialities and rubbish, and that only the bureaucrats, by first seizing it from them, will know how to spend it wisely.

Man Vs. the Welfare State (ed. Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1971) - ISBN: 9781610163996