CAMBRIDGE – One of the many things I learned from Milton Friedman is that the true cost of government is its spending, not its taxes. To put it another way, spending is financed either by current taxes or through borrowing, and borrowing amounts to future taxes, which have almost the same impact on economic performance as current taxes.
美国剑桥—我从米尔顿·弗里德曼那里学到了很多东西，其中之一是，政府的真正成本是其支出，而不是其税收。换句话说，支出要么用当前税收融资，要么借钱融资，而借来的钱无非是未来的税收，它对经济表现的影响和当前税收无甚区别。