“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” - Ayn Rand

Reality: Demands have no limits. Ideally, it’s preferable that YOU agree to be taxed. It doesn't matter if you agree to be taxed to fund a Welfare State, Military Industrial Complex, Climate Change or trade protection (tariffs) etc. What’s important is that government does it because a free market would not. It’s a money transfer mechanism from the many to the few. Consumers make producers rich. We, the People, demand government benefits. Many call this 'fair' or 'Just'. Some call such spending 'transfers'. Others call it 'Regulatory Capture'. Economists call it ‘Rent Seeking'. Enough agree this should be done in the Public Interest and agree to be taxed for it.

All government $pending is consumed and 'trickles' up, down & sideways to those who produce what is consumed. The more government spends the richer producers get. Government is a big customer. Massive amounts are transferred. ( see federalbudgetinpictures.com ) Here are just two examples:

A) Every welfare dollar that goes directly to the poor ‘trickles up’ to those who supply what the poor buy. SNAP doesn’t make the poor richer. It makes people in the food industry richer.  

B) To supply ‘free’ Covid jabs the federal government ‘trickled’ about $40 billion to big Pharma. (see here) That cure may have been worse than the disease. (see here)

Consequences: Although demands have no limit, resources do. Soon there will be little left to transfer because governments at all levels are headed for bankruptcy in a politially divided nation. Mountains of money are created to fund these transfers because taxation can no longer sustain them. But it's hard to eat or drink money and banks can't print bread.

Consequences of such money printing include 1) inflation and 2) widening the wealth 'inequality gap'. The first is hardest on those in the lower rungs of the wealth pyramid and the other leads to resentment, envy and conflict. How is this a Common Good or a Public Interest?

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