The act of consumption is divorced from the tax payment and excess demand always results. The absence of a profit or loss calculation by government means services such as garbage collection, fire protection, prisons, city management services, and schools, for example, are invariably more expensive than when provided by private industry. Government does a rotten job of running nearly every enterprise it undertakes while simultaneously reducing personal freedom and choice. The Clinton administration continues to stubbornly insist that government is not spending or regulating enough. That's certainly what is happening now.
Health care is a good example.
We are the world leader in health care. There is no place on the face of the earth that has a system as successful as ours or can deliver the quality of health care we have come to enjoy. Stirring the acids of envy, they portray doctors and drug companies as the enemies who need to be controlled when in fact it is government policy and the legal system that need changing. Taking from Peter to Pay Paul Politicians can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. Government is not a god.