Gregory's ServerI think one distinction some people make is;
When the government is wasteful, it's wasting tax payer dollars and that's bad, because those are my tax dollars.
But when a business is wasteful, as long as the profit is there and shareholders are happy and the stock price goes up, it doesn't matter if they're wasteful because it's not my money.
There's a cognitive disconnect that I think a lot of people actually have to think about a little harder, but they won't.
@finner
The money that corporations use, whether it's wasted, spent wisely, or given to shareholders, comes from customers.
But we don't call it customers' money. We think it's the corporation's money, once it's paid.
Same with money that a government takes in. It's public money. It no longer belongs to the people who paid it.
Calling it "taxpayers' money" is just propaganda.
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