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I believe the argument stems from the difference between wasting your own money vs. wasting tax payer money.
>but I haven't seen any evidence that government is particularly good or bad
There's plenty of examples out there of the latter (you'll often see more criticism than praise on govt spending). For example, [1].
[1] https://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/report/50-examp...
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I believe the argument stems from the difference between wasting your own money vs. wasting tax payer money.
>but I haven't seen any evidence that government is particularly good or bad
There's plenty of examples out there of the latter (you'll often see more criticism than praise on govt spending). For example, [1].
[1] https://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/report/50-examp...