What a tangled web we weave around what we want from government, and what we expect to pay for that — most especially in an environment dominated by our belief, and the partial reality, that public funds are the cookie jar for politicians and civil servants funding luxury lifestyles.
Yet our lopsided take on this equation is moving us all ever closer to a cliff edge. For our ‘government should’ wish list is remarkably long, even omnipresent.
