Henry Hazlitt on government spending

Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for.  The world is full of so-called economists who in turn are full of schemes for getting something for nothing.  They tell us that the government can spend and spend without taxing at all; that it can continue to pile up debt without ever paying it off, because ‘we owe it to ourselves.’ 

~ Henry Hazlitt