No. 716: Solving the Government Spending Puzzle

How many times have you come across someone who complains about taxes being too high, but then in the next breath says roads are too congested, the police are overworked, or the parks aren’t open long enough? Sounds inconsistent, right? Not necessarily. To many people it does seem as if government is taking more in taxes but doing less with the revenues. I call this the “government spending puzzle.”