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When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.

Henry Hazlitt
Philosophy, Successful, Government
Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.45, Crown Business
When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.