Next time you’re stopped by the portly gentleman holding the orange ‘stop’ sign, while heavy equipment feasts on the asphalt remnants of a road that was, be sure to properly observe the sign to your right; the one reminding you that your taxes are indeed doing some good, that government does create a job now and again… And pay no mind to what those tax dollars might have created in the private sector… Perhaps something innovative, something other than mere consumption…
Here’s Professor Ben Powell of Suffolk University on the subject: