Mises Daily
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Jean-Baptiste Say
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salaries of the public functionaries, and that their services are consequently not open to a free competition. The second, that those who direct the public expenses, but only to that part which exceeds what it would cost if this service was left open to free competition. The profits which government sometimes makes on lotteries money? Yes, to a certain point; but only in places where an office is constantly open to exchange them for money; for they are no longer worth the full sum of money,