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The public sector can only feed off the private sector; it necessarily lives parasitically upon the private economy. but this means that the productive resources of society - far from satisfying the wants of consumers - are now directed, by compulsion, away from these wants and needs. the consumers are deliberately thwarted, and the resources of the economy diverted from them to those activities desire by the parasitic bureaucracy and politicians.
-Murray Rothbard
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The Public Sector Can Only Feed Off

Murray Rothbard
The public sector can only feed off the private sector; it necessarily lives parasitically upon the private economy. but this means that the productive resources of society - far from satisfying the wants of consumers - are now directed, by compulsion, away from these wants and needs. the consumers are deliberately thwarted, and the resources of the economy diverted from them to those activities desire by the parasitic bureaucracy and politicians.
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