Margaret Thatcher Socialist Government Quotations

If one generation is expected to carry an excessive burden on behalf of another, it will seek by every means to avoid it. It will either demand that past promises are broken, or it will not work, or it will not pay taxes, or the most talented people will leave. Socialist governments which have tried to tax 'till the pips squeak' have ample experience of that.

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.