If a private company overcharged the people who pay for its services some $90 million, we’d call it “fraud” or “theft.” We’d also demand our money back. We sure as hell wouldn’t sit around and wait for the company’s executives to decide whether to give it back, or to come up with new “services” it feels we need, and keep the money to pay for them.

When government overcharges us, we do exactly that. Gosh! What ever will they do with the extra money? Perhaps — just perhaps — they’ll give us just a smidge of it back! Also, it isn’t “theft” when the government does it, it’s a surplus, or better yet, a windfall!

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