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The Bureaucrat as a Voter

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Ludwig von Mises

Representative democracy cannot subsist if a great part of the voters are on the government payroll. If elected officials no longer consider themselves servants of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, doles, and subsidies, democracy is done for.

Original Article: "The Bureaucrat as a Voter"

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