Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
We dedicate a significant portion of our working lives to supporting governmental activities at federal, state, and local levels. We all have programs we support and ones we oppose. But, if you polled Americans asking whether they're getting their money's worth for the taxes spent by government bureaucrats on their behalf, how many would say yes? Milton Friedman says almost nobody does with one very small exception.
We dedicate a significant portion of our working lives to supporting governmental activities at federal, state, and local levels. We all have programs we support and ones we oppose. But, if you polled Americans asking whether they're getting their money's worth for the taxes spent by government bureaucrats on their behalf, how many would say yes? Milton Friedman says almost nobody does with one very small exception.










