How fun it must be to spend other people’s hard-earned money. That’s the position government leaders find themselves in day in and day out as they make decisions about what to spend our tax dollars on. They have billions to indulge the most fanciful items on their policy wish lists.

Sometimes they splurge hundreds of millions on a 911 system that doesn’t work at all or billions on a fancy new high-speed rail to nowhere – that’s billions of dollars, every one of which you had to sacrifice your time, body, and mind to stock aisle 4, carry packs of shingles up a ladder, or contemplate violence as an angry customer waterboards you for doing exactly what the clueless higher ups told you to do.

These fiscal decisions don’t appear to weigh much on our prudent stewards of public funds – they com

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