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Matthew Lau: We taxpayers are on the wrong side of the money flows

Too often government takes from everyone and gives, not to the poor, but to people who are already doing just fine

Recent stories about NDP politicians wasting everyone’s money call to mind an observation by philosopher David Berlinski, who in an essay titled “Losing Money” wrote that in addition to the distinction between men and women, “all human beings may be divided into two classes: There are those to whom money flows and those from whom it recedes.” He lamented, “I have always found myself squarely in the second camp, surrounded by others of life’s fiscal losers…”

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